◗ Magic Touch Top: Rose searches the room before her first contest at the Regional Championship. Bottom: The typists ready themselves for the start of the French Nationals. This competition was staged in a hotel ballroom and lit with fluorescent practicals in the ceiling. 82 October 2013 American Cinematographer blows the pages in a giant, impossibly symmetrical arc and then scatters them throughout the room. Rose doesn’t even notice. “It’s completely out of nowhere,” says Schiffman, who explains that the action is supposed to be a kind of reverie Louis is having. The frame-rate shift to 60 fps (accomplished in-camera) enhances the dreamy aspect of the scene. And remarkably, the shot contains no CGI. “We wanted to do everything on set,” reports Schiffman. “A guy on the crew glued all the pages with some transparent substance [so they were an inch or so apart and would fly in perfect unison in a circular motion]. We used 10 fans. Believe me, we did a lot of tests to get that shot right! But Régis and I wanted so much to do it for real.” The filmmakers’ only uses of CGI were to create a storefront window and add reflections to it, and for a shot of Louis and Rose driving into Paris for