American Cinematographer - October 2015 - 46

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Over the Line

Crewmembers follow the action as Blunt and Josh Brolin climb into the task
force's private aircraft.

sive and we were shooting in the
summer, so the nights were pretty short.
How did you light the car on the
road?
Deakins: For the location work,
there is a trick I have used a time or two,

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which is to put fluorescents on the hood
of the car. I usually place two standard 4foot fluorescents there and overlap them
end-to-end. Then I tape the sides of the
tubes so that there is just a very thin slit
of light coming out from the front. This

creates a kind of soft wrap of light as if
the actor is being lit by the spill from the
car's headlights. I keep the source really
low, so that, even when you saw both the
driver in the mirror and the road ahead,
there's actually a fluorescent on the
hood, right below the camera. I also
boosted the headlights with 650-watt
Redheads on the car's front fender.
Shooting is a team effort; I
spoke with your gaffer, Chris
Napolitano, who kindly shared lighting details with me. Who are some of
the other key collaborators we should
mention?
Deakins: Mitch Lillian, my key
grip; Bruce Hamme, my dolly grip; and
Andy Harris, my focus puller. I have
worked with them all for 20 years and
more. And Josh Gollish, my DIT,
whom I have worked with on every film
I have done that has been digital
capture, including Skyfall, Prisoners and
Unbroken [AC Jan. '15].
You said that you like to define


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