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Outside the Box
The Doctor and
Clara (Jenna
Coleman) meet
with Dr. Chang
(Andrew Leung)
in his office,
where a single
Cyberman tank
is held.
The next step is to draw up a
formal plot for best boy Steve
Slocombe. "As much as possible," Taylor
says, "I like to be involved in the installation of the lighting rigs. Once the
construction of the set takes place, it's
easier to see any potential lighting problems." To enable quick lighting adjustments, Taylor employs individually
addressable dimming for every instru54
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ment on the set, and he works with
gaffer Mark Hutchings, "twiddling,
fussing, and making sure everything is
going to plan," the cinematographer
says. He also emphasizes the importance of a second, ready-plotted backup
option "to be put into use quickly whilst
on the floor alongside the actors, if
everything is not going to plan. That is
paramount."
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The volcano set for "Dark
Water," Taylor relates, "was relatively
simple. The key light element was a real
flame bar kept just out of vision, with
fireballs safely in shot. We used steam to
amplify the heat and vapors, with red,
orange and white Kino Flos at various
distances from the actors, set slightly
below their eyelines, to act as a fill light
as if from the lava flow."
Additionally, Taylor explains,
"300-watt and 500-watt tungsten
Fresnels with Lee red gel filters were
installed in the set and fed through
lighting dimmers to give the effect of
molten magma moving [beneath] the
two actors." The resulting pools of light
were slowly faded between 50 and 100
percent to simulate the changing heat
source, and the molten rock itself was
realized as a greenscreen element.
Taylor also had a 4K space light rigged
overhead with red gel, but "it wasn't
needed," he says. "Since the Doctor's
hair is predominantly gray, I had to be
careful that in his close-up the mixture
of colored lights didn't make it look too
much as if he were performing in a
pantomime."
Taylor adds that sound recordist
Deian Humphreys "wasn't particularly
impressed with all the extra noise [from
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