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Naval Campaign
Top: The team
stands in the
squad room, one
of the series’
many standing
sets, which is
rigged so the
crew can quickly
dial in an array
of day and night
looks. Middle:
Vance and Gibbs
work into the
night. Bottom:
Webb
maneuvers the
Steadicam
around Murray
and Weatherly
while A-Camera
1st AC Chad
Erickson (left)
keeps the action
in focus.

craft the look from the ground up.
“JAG was a classically shot show,
usually with a static camera, and Don
wanted to do something very different
for NCIS,” says Webb. “He had me
watch The Bourne Identity, and he said, ‘I
want you to study the way they cut, the
way they move the camera — all of it.’
The director, Doug Liman, did things
like jumping the line and shooting an
over-the-shoulder handheld on one side
and in studio mode on the other. It lent
real energy to the movie.”
Figuring out how to achieve
something similar on an eight-day-perepisode schedule “was a challenge,”
Webb continues. “We discovered the
best way to achieve it was to shoot as
much footage as possible, and then let
Don mix it all up in editorial. We often
ran three cameras simultaneously.”
Bellisario exited the series after
four seasons, and his responsibilities as
show runner/head writer have since been
filled by Shane Brennan and, currently,
Gary Glasberg. “The show has since
become more conventional in terms of
style — we do a lot more with a moving
single camera,” says Webb. “But we’ll still
pick one or two scenes [per episode] to
do that sort of crazy style, and every
chance I can, I’ll throw in the second
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