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Closer views of the trolls at their campsite.
with their backs to the walls, the only way to get from one end of the room to the other was an undignified crawl down the table!” Removing the ceiling allowed four Source Four Lekos to be positioned overhead to create a strong bounce off the table. Lesnie notes, “I have a great relationship with our visualeffects supervisor, Eric Saindon, and he was very supportive of my ideas for the look of sequences. Knowing that the banquet would be filmed with slave moco rigs, and that most of the shots would be visual effects, I bounced light off the table to create the right mood. The art direction that was overexposed was digitally restored; some props and tablecloths had burned out.” Not only did the Bag End scenes
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require complex lighting, but there was also the issue of scale — namely, how to make Bilbo and the dwarves appear smaller than Gandalf (Ian McKellen). Motion-control supervisor Alex Funke, ASC says, “Peter requested a scaled, slaved motion-control system that was silent, fast and, most important, able to film all the actors in the scene at the same time. Development of this system continued right up until shooting started.” (General Lift in El Segundo, Calif., was the principal contractor for the system.) Funke defines scaled motioncontrol as “a dual-camera, real-time process to create a complete scene in which the apparent sizes of characters have been changed.” Achieving this
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required key grip Tony Keddy to set up a greenscreen stage, with details scaled up or down to provide the apparent size difference, near the live-action set. The actors playing the dwarves and Hobbit were on the Bag End set, which was built at the Hobbit-world scale, while McKellen was placed in the small-scale greenscreen set. The crane on the Bag End set was operated as normal. Kuper motion-control software took the encoded positional data from the crane move, creating a scaled-down but geometrically identical move that was sent to the slaved crane, which performed in sync simultaneously. The scaled move, coupled with the camera on the slaved crane, which was proportionally closer to McKellen, resulted in Gandalf appearing larger than the other characters. To assist McKellen with the complexity of 14 different eyelines, 2nd AD Emma Cross devised a simple but effective system. Photos of each character were attached to light bulbs, which were then positioned in the appropriate eyelines around McKellen. The bulbs were individually wired to a control box, and when an actor on the actual set spoke, his corresponding photo would light up. Scaled motion control provided for instantaneous changes to any aspect of the scene, including eyelines, perfor-
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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: GE.com, “Juice Train”
Production Slate: Amour • Promised Land
Once Upon a Time in the South
An Unlikely Hero
An Unlikely Hero
A Musical Revolution
A Musical Revolution
An Auteur’s Angst
An Auteur’s Angst
Post Focus: Restoring Sunset Blvd. • 2012 HPA Awards
Post Focus: Restoring Sunset Blvd. • 2012 HPA Awards
New Products & Services
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Ad Index
In Memoriam: Ken Lamkin, ASC
In Memoriam: Ken Lamkin, ASC
Clubhouse News
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Newton Thomas Sigel
ASC Close-Up: Newton Thomas Sigel
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