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Top: The
filmmakers used a
wide selection of
archival photos,
such as this 1970s
image featuring
two “grid start
girls,” for
reference. Bottom:
These shots
served as look
references for
angles captured
by Indiecams
mounted directly
onto the racecars.
Once it was established that this
approach worked, the archival footage
could provide a skeletal structure for
each major race. “We’d get to the point
where, for example, a seven-second
sequence of Monza footage became the
creative foundation and palette for our
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entire Monza scene,” continues the cinematographer. “Out of that we’d take
colors, costumes, buildings and other
elements, and simulate them in the
scenes we’d shoot.”
Aiming for a final aspect ratio of
2.40:1, Dod Mantle chose Arri Alexas
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as his main cameras, recording in the
uncompressed ArriRaw format to maximize dynamic range and flexibility in
post. “Shooting in England from
February to May, you’re in situations
where you can’t control the weather or
even sometimes the lighting,” he says.
“We had extras getting hypothermia on
days when it was bright but we needed
rain, and then when the sun was due to
come out, it rained and I had to slam on
the lights. I knew that would happen,
and that’s why I needed the latitude.”
In front of the sensor, he opted for
older lenses, including Baltars and
Cooke S2s. “I got hold of the most
ancient lenses I could subject my assistants to working with! Sometimes they
almost had to use a mallet to turn the
focus rings. It allowed us to deteriorate
the look, adding aberrations and genuine
flare — organic photographic elements
that broke down the definition while
keeping that amazing ArriRaw latitude.”
Monaco was one of the settings in
the archived footage that influenced
Dod Mantle’s visuals. “I wanted to identify colors to push, and Monaco was
good for that because it had such a colorful look to it, with the yellows and cyans
of the reversal [film stock] of that time,”
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