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Top: Shortland
and Arkapaw
strove to
counter the dark
core of the story
by emphasizing
the children’s
pastoral
surroundings.
Bottom: Thomas
(back to
camera),
Arkapaw and
key grip Glenn
Arrowsmith get
ready to shoot.

complete confidence in colorist Jamie Hediger, who had worked with him previously
on Animal Kingdom (AC Sept. ’10).
“Wonderful” and “unique” is how
Arkapaw describes working with Lore director Shortland. “Cate is more concerned
with mood and emotion than narrative,”
he says. “One of my favorite quotes about
filmmaking is, ‘A director is a person who
catches butterflies,’ and Cate embodies
that. Her eyes are always searching for the
butterflies in the scene.”

TECHNICAL SPECS

an absolute angel and managed the workload of two second ACs. And I learned a
nice trick from Michael [Adcock] when the
sun came out while we were shooting an
exterior courtyard under an overcast sky.”
Adcock covered the courtyard with 20'x20'
frames of Half Grid and placed black net
underneath them. It proved to be a perfect
match for the earlier overcast sky.
Arkapaw says he likes to soften his
light sources “twice before they play on the
set.” This is especially true when lighting
interiors from outside. Adcock elaborates:
“If we used Pars, we’d bounce them off
bead board or Ultrabounce and then push
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March 2013

the light through a frame of 251 or 252
diffusion. There was never any direct light
per se on any of the interiors, but more than
once, we had to [finesse] the direct light by
positioning exterior fixtures, usually 4K and
6K Pars, on goal posts at such a high, steep
angle that the light would bounce off the
interior floor. All bounced HMI light coming
through windows was put through ¼ or ½
CTB.”
Arkapaw was unable to participate
in the DI process, which was done at EFilm
in Sydney, because he had to head to New
Zealand for his next project, Jane Campion’s
miniseries Top of the Lake. But he had
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American Cinematographer - March 2013
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Die Antwoord’s “I Fink U Freeky”
Production Slate: Lore
Trials by Fire
Strong Foundations
Tech Savvy
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoriam: Charles Austin, ASC • Alfred Taylor, ASC
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Russell Carpenter
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American Cinematographer - March 2013 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - March 2013 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - March 2013 - Short Takes: Die Antwoord’s “I Fink U Freeky”
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