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Funk Soul Brother

Camera operator Will Arnot positions a
Canon C500 for a close-quarters shot inside the
cockpit of an airplane.

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on the carrier's ceiling (normally used by
paratroopers, who would clip a cable to
pull their parachutes as they jumped out
of the plane). Arnot could then handhold an Alexa hung from the pulley as
he walked the length of the fuselage,
between the two rows of passengers
who sat facing one another; as he
carried the camera, he could rock it and
spin it up to 220 degrees in any direction.
For a shot of Brown striding to
the cockpit to talk to the pilot, Arnot,
who is 6'6" tall, had to wedge himself
into the plane's dashboard. The operator
held the C500, mounted with a 14mm
lens, above his head and used a 7" monitor placed on his lap to frame the shot.
"I was just able to get the pilot's head
and part of his body on the right and
Brown standing with his arm resting on
the pilot's seat," he explains. "The
camera was maybe a foot from the pilot
and three feet from Brown."
Arnot half grimaces and half

laughs as he acknowledges, "It was
extremely tight quarters. That's another
example of where the Canon is great.
It's so compact. We never could have
achieved that shot with an Alexa body."
"They used to fly those planes
with the doors open because it was so
hot," says Goldblatt. "They flew only
about 500 to 1,000 feet off the ground,
which meant you could always see the
landscape. In preproduction I shot aerial
plates of misty, Vietnam-style landscapes - from a helicopter in
Mississippi!"
Weintraub adds, "We replaced
the background with Stephen's aerial
plates and CG trees. We enhanced the
plates by adding matte-painted mountains in the background, and huts and
encampments in the clearings on the
ground, tracking them into the keyed
hero foreground action. We also added
CG explosions and smoke, tracer fire
and interactive lighting on the plates to
match the CG enhancements." Other



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