◗ Ultimate Survivor Top: Louie and Phil survive on the open sea. Middle: A bomber attacks the rafts. Bottom: On the 47th day, Louie and Phil are picked up by Japanese sailors. 46 January 2015 American Cinematographer wrap around the [whole structure]." The fuselage was positioned roughly 13' off the ground so the camera could look down through the open bomb-bay doors. "The doors open and you see the bombs lined up and then dropping," says Deakins. "We did it on-set. It was quite a big, dramatic shot. After the bombing run, the bombbay doors become stuck, and we see Louie moving across them with the blue ocean below him. Naturally, light had to be brought into the plane as though it were coming up from below. The height of the set off the floor of the stage was crucial." Gaffer Shaun Conway explains that this effect was achieved in part "by making 8-by-8 Ultrabounce boards that could be easily lined up and joined together" into one large, reflective source beneath the fuselage. Additionally, the entire rig was surrounded by a white cyclorama made from two enormous pieces of Light Grid Cloth. The material was positioned 20' from the edges of the fuselage; there was another 10'-12' of space beyond the Grid Cloth where lighting units were rigged on scaffold suspended from the stage ceiling. "We used a system of ropes to pull the Light Grid up into the gantry [when we needed access]," says Conway. "The rest of the material was attached to steel pipe on the floor [and to a grid connected to the stage ceiling]." The crew built rounded