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On the Quibi show Wireless, cues for turning the phone vertically were incorporated into the action: When a text message comes in, or when actor Tye Sheridan
is small in the frame with his back to the camera, viewers can rotate their device to
see what he's doing. It would be difficult to watch the whole film in one mode and
still understand what's going on, says cinematographer Nicholas Wiesnet.
A second-unit "Vertical Asset Department" - comprising directors Mishka
Kornai and Dan Carr, and iPhone technicians Stephen Tyler and Sho Schrock - was
always within signal range with its own devices, initiating FaceTime calls between
characters and sending texts "all in real time," Wiesnet says. Viewers can keep an
eye on the phone's waning battery life, which serves as a built-in countdown clock
for the action.
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rather than on delicately lit scenes
and shallow depth of field.
Reuniting
with
director
Stephen Hopkins, with whom he
worked on 24, Californication and
many other projects, Levy shot The
Fugitive primarily with two - sometimes four - Arri Alexa Minis capturing 3.2K ProRes 4444 XQ with Cooke
S4 (T2) primes and various
June 2020
Angénieux Optimo zooms from Otto
Nemenz in Los Angeles. "Because it's
a chase movie between two people,
we wanted the camera to feel participatory and designed around the characters' perspectives," he notes, "so we
didn't allow the camera to be observational.
Wide
lenses
were
preferred."
Depth of field was set between
American Cinematographer - 100 Years
From left: For Wireless, A-camera 1st AC Jared
Wennberg, A-camera operator Michael Black and
A-camera 2nd AC Loie Russell-Templeton trek
through the snow to set up a wide shot on
location in Snow Basin, Utah.
T2.8 and T4. "My eye just seems to
settle around those light levels," Levy
says. "I'm not one for trying to get
different looks with different lenses.
I'd rather do it with lighting and
contrast.
"It was a fast-moving production, three to four locations per day,"
adds Levy, who lit the show with
gaffer Jeremy Graham. "It had to be
bold, simple and quick. We used
single sources wherever possible."
Levy developed an "aggressive
bleach-bypass-style"
LUT
with
Roundabout colorist Joe Cook and
color scientist Jerome Dewhurst,
which lends the image a grayish,
desaturated look, with solid blacks,
clipped highlights and a steep
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