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Left: Dod Mantle
chose to shoot
major scenes
aboard the Essex
night-for-day. To
create a base
"daylight," the
crew used balloon
lights rigged in
scaffolding cages
suspended from
cranes above the
tank. Below: For
directional
sunlight, the crew
placed 20Ks and
12-lights on cherry
pickers behind the
bluescreen that
encircled the tank.

appear thinner and thinner and,
finally, emaciated during the final
act."
Dod Mantle's key crewmembers included a number of veteran
collaborators, such as gaffer Thomas
Neivelt, key grip Rupert Lloyd-Parry
and 1st AC and operator Telfer
Barnes, as well as 2nd-unit director of
photography Michael Wood. The
cinematographer also expresses gratitude to B-camera and Steadicam
operator Alastair Rae and Rae's 1st
AC John Watters.
The production's primary
camera was the Arri Alexa XT (delivering ArriRaw files), but he also
employed an array of secondary
systems, including Canon Cinema
EOS-1D C DSLRs, and Cinema
EOS C300s and C500s. His selection
of lenses was equally diverse, including Panavision Primos, as well as
Arri/Zeiss Ultra Primes specifically
for the PL-mount Canon cameras.
"My favorite lenses were the closefocus 21mm and 27mm Primo
series," Dod Mantle enthuses.
Assessing this camera selection,

the cinematographer says, "I think of
them as thick, medium, thin and
minute paintbrushes. This mixing of
formats is much more about a
camera's form, for physical and
ergonomic reasons. I don't want the
audience to be conscious of those
choices, but for me to use the right
tool for the job. In this case, I wanted
to embed the audience in this story,
to get them closer to the characters,
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to feel the scenes and remove the
distance that's sometimes there in
period movies.
"Part of that was also the depiction of the sea," he continues. "I
wanted to capture that look of
J.M.W. Turner's paintings, in which
the density of the water in the lower
part of the frame is the same as the
sky - that moody mysteriousness.
And that's unusual in landscapes,
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