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seen before.” The shot for which the Model II was devised is a simple setup: a medium shot of Woodrow walking down the street towards the camera, his face and shirt soaked in blood, as Courtney (Rebekah Brandes) looks on in terror. The scene is a decisive moment for all the characters involved, and the shot of Woodrow is its focal point. “It looks like it was shot on a telephoto lens from 200 feet away,” says Glodell, “but the camera was right in front of me on a Steadicam [rig].” Glodell and Hodges were so excited by the resultant look, they had to fight the urge to use the Model II for every scene they shot after that. In the end, they used the camera for just one other sequence, a montage of beach scenes. Operating the Model I is easy, says Hodge. “We spent a lot of time trying to make it compact,” says the cinematographer. “It sits easy on your shoulder. It’s lightweight. The focus is right where it should be.” Because the Model II is more specialized, it is more difficult to maneuver, he continues. “With any other camera, you can put it on your shoulder, and all the controls are where you’d expect them to be. But the Model II is rough, and you can’t grab it in certain areas because you’d crush it.” Hodge controlled the cameras’ exposure, shutter, frame rate, look-up tables and recording functions with a 15" MacBook Pro running SiliconDVR. The computer was linked to the cameras via CAT-5 Ethernet cable, and files were recorded to the laptop hard drive in Cineform Raw. The image was monitored on a 7" monitor through the MacBook’s VGA output, but the laptop’s port went bad a few days into production, so the laptop itself was used to frame shots. This meant that handheld and Steadicam shots required an assistant to walk with the laptop tethered to Hodge or Steadicam operator Ari Robbins. One particularly awkward setup required Hodge to hang out a car window while
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Scenes set in Woodrow’s house were shot with different versions of the Model I. In the top photo, the camera is equipped with a Silicon Imaging 2K imaging head, and in the bottom photo it’s rigged with the SI-2K Mini.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - July 2011
American Cinematographer - July 2011
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Letters
Production Slate: Larry Crowne • Mortal Kombat
Monster Out of the Box
Ring of Power
Shot Down in Flames
A Cultural Cataclysm
Ascending Cinematography’s Summit
Post Focus: Prime Focus New York
Filmmakers’ Forum: Jim Matlosz
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoriam: Gerald Perry Finnerman, ASC
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Bruno Delbonnel
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American Cinematographer - July 2011 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - July 2011 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - July 2011 - Letters
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American Cinematographer - July 2011 - Production Slate: Larry Crowne • Mortal Kombat
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American Cinematographer - July 2011 - Filmmakers’ Forum: Jim Matlosz
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American Cinematographer - July 2011 - In Memoriam: Gerald Perry Finnerman, ASC
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