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would find the position and dial it down or
up a little. He was basically painting with
light spontaneously! With that, we could
move around in that moody world in an intimate style and still give the actors that shiny
look. That China ball was our savior!"
The DI was performed at EFilm in
Hollywood by colorists Yvan Lucas and Tom
Reiser, who graded on an Autodesk Lustre.
An Arriscan was used to scan the film negative at 6K for 4K output, and an Arrilaser
was used for the filmout. Sandgren participated in the grading remotely on weekends,
monitoring the team's work from a theater
at Company 3 in London and conveying
feedback by phone. Sandgren says the
degree of grading was "not huge" and
largely addressed skin tones. "Yvan and
Tom did delicate adjustments to the natural
print colors," he says.
Musing about Russell's think-onyour-feet methods, Sandgren concludes,
"David carries the film close to his heart, and
he projects that onto his crew as the camera
rolls. He encouraged all of us to perform
fearlessly. It was a very emotional and inspiring experience."

Top: Rosenfeld
and Sidney, his
mistress, get
close amid some
dry cleaning in
this frame grab.
Bottom (from
left): Script
supervisor Tracy
Scott, Sandgren
and director
David O. Russell
watch Bale and
Lawrence play a
scene.

TECHNICAL SPECS
that when you stood in the middle of it, the
background was properly illuminated," he
continues. "But in some cases, if that had
been the extent of the illumination, the
actors would have looked too dark, and we
wanted them to shine." The solution was a
China ball full of LED LiteRibbon that was

ASC to Salute Cundey,
Serra, Rawlings Feb. 1
ASC members Dean Cundey,
Eduardo Serra and Richard Rawlings Jr. will
be honored for their respective bodies of
work at the 28th Annual ASC Awards for
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography next month.
Cundey will receive the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of
his work on such features as Jurassic Park,
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the
Future, The Thing and Halloween.
Serra, who was born in Portugal
and resides in France, will receive the ASC
International Award. His credits include

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rigged on a sound boom and carried around
by Murray. "We could dial the LiteRibbon
between daylight and tungsten and also
dim it," Sandgren explains. "Patrick ran
around with it to fill faces. As the camera
moved 360 degrees, the shiny fill light was
also moving, so you can't see it. Patrick

Defiance, Blood Diamond, Girl with a Pearl
Earring, The Wings of the Dove and The
Hairdresser's Husband.
Rawlings will receive the ASC
Career Achievement in Television Award
for his work on such series as Desperate
Housewives, Boston Public and L.A. Law.
The ASC Awards will be held Feb. 1
in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood &
Highland in Hollywood. As part of the
festivities, the Society will host an Open
House Jan. 25 at the Clubhouse, 1782 N.
Orange Dr., Hollywood.
For more information, visit
www.theasc.com or call (323) 969-4333.

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2.40:1
2-perf Super 35mm
Arricam Lite, Studio
Canon K35 and Zeiss Standard Speed
Fujifilm Eterna Vivid 500 8547, 250D 8546
Digital Intermediate
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ERRATUM
On page 34 of our Oct. '13 issue,
we incorrectly identified the crewmember pictured with Don Jon director
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the film's cinematographer, Thomas Kloss. Kloss is not
in the photo.
Here is a photo of Kloss at work
on the production.
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