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BROKEN SOUL

Sigel works through a scene with actor Ciara Bravo.

with a lot of small detail like we did.
" Cherry is an anamorphic film, but we switched to spherical for the
sections where he goes to basic training and off to war in Iraq. The shift
was meant to emphasize a kind of dislocation Cherry experienced in environments that were so alien to him. For the basic-training scenes we
used the spherical 14mm Sigma in full sensor mode, which created an
uncomfortable proximity and distortion. For the Iraq scenes, which we
shot in Morocco, we switched to the Leica M-Series, a classic staple of
photojournalists before zoom lenses came around. When Cherry comes
home from the war, we go back to the anamorphic [look] that the movie
began with. "
Early in their acquaintance, Cherry encounters Emily at a party, where
he's high on Ecstasy. To convey that euphoria, Sigel shot infrared and
color footage simultaneously with a 3ality Technica TS5 stereoscopic

rig (using two Red Ranger Monstro cameras and Super Baltar lenses);
then, in post, he graded the composited images to progress from a bright
monochrome palette to varying amounts of color. " One Red captured
normal color, while the other had the IR filter that normally blocks IR
light removed and replaced with a KipperTie IR filter - which is designed to block visible light, but allow the IR part of the spectrum in.
Additionally, in front of the lens we had a nearly opaque filter that still
allows the IR spectrum in. To heighten the effect, we lit the actors with
infrared lighting instruments, which is very strange on set, because you
cannot see that light with the naked eye - only when it's picked up by
the IR-sensitive camera. The normal camera sees none of that light. By
using this rig, we could begin the scene with Cherry very tripped out
until he discovers Emily, who is able to ground him little by little, with
the color normalizing. Having the two identical images allowed us to

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