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Unit photography by Kerry Brown, courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox.

Opposite and this
page, top: Once
close as brothers,
Pharoah Ramses
(Joel Edgerton)
and Moses
(Christian Bale)
battle over the
fate of 400,000
Egyptian slaves in
the biblical epic
Exodus: Gods and
Kings. Middle:
Cinematographer
Dariusz Wolski,
ASC (left) and
director Ridley
Scott (pointing)
ready a scene.
Bottom: Scott
confers on-set
with Sigourney
Weaver.

the director began work on his Alien
prequel, Prometheus, which he'd decided
to shoot in native 3D (AC July '12).
Impressed by Wolski's success with the
stereoscopic process on Pirates of the
Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (AC June
'11), Ridley suggested they join forces.
"Converting is just as good as
shooting native 3D these days," Wolski
opines, "but Ridley wants to see things
in 3D immediately. He wants to feel the
shot and see what it's going to look like
on the final screen. It's really a matter of
individual process, a matter of thinking.
If you just shoot a 2D movie and
convert it later, it doesn't look right.
That's not the fault of the technology;
that's a fault in the process of creating
the movie. You have to keep in mind
that the image is three-dimensional.
You have to shoot deeper stops, you
have to compose for depth, you have to
be careful when using longer lenses. We
did all of that here, but we had immediate results by shooting native 3D, which
gave Ridley the opportunity to refine
every composition."
Shooting with two cameras in a
single rig is complicated enough, but
adding three or four additional 3D rigs
for every scene quickly raises the stakes.
"We had quite a few rigs," Wolski
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