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ity but still be as naturalistic as possible. That’s why I kept looking at Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy. In those movies, everything’s lit, but things still look naturalistic. It’s sort of a stylized reality. The restaurant and nightclub scenes involving Nina and Lily were a bit more glamorous-looking. Libatique: In working within a color palette, I naturally play a lot of color contrast. I might combine white light with a background color from our overall palette. In the restaurant, I lit the actresses with a table lamp and carefully positioned China balls, but
mixed up the rhythm. I would keep the green really down and we’d add flashes of magenta, or turn the green off altogether. It was fun. Technicolor’s Sam Daley prepared DVD dailies for us, but digital dailies don’t really tell me where I am with my exposures. To check the exposures, Joey Violante, the head timer at Technicolor New York, would put the footage up on an analyzer for me.
Did you bring in any outside experts to help with the ballet sequences? Libatique: We didn’t have any consultants for our theatrical lighting because I didn’t really have enough lights to justify it! I also didn’t have enough time to collaborate with somebody else; I didn’t want to get into a situation that would involve a lot of back-and-forth. When we got to those
“Every performance was covered in long master shots, and we just augmented with other moves as necessary.”
there’s a lot of green/cyan in the background provided by compact fluorescent tubes that Mo Flam hid here and there. In any space, if I know I’m going to neutralize the actors’ faces, I’m going to put a color in the background. I didn’t do a lot of filtration, so it was all based on color temperature. That’s harder to do these days, because a lot of the film stocks are designed to balance everything out for the digital intermediate. The nightclub scene was shot in Santos Party House in Chinatown. It was a big space, and inside we basically set up three walls made of Mylar mirror and then crammed in all of our dancing extras. I surrounded the set with green Kinos and four Paparazzis with magenta gels on them, and we just
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American Cinematographer - December 2010
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: “Dot”
Production Slate
Danse Macabre
Up Against It
Romantic Chemistry
A Big-City Dream
Post Focus: 3-D Workflow at Company 3
Tomorrow’s Technology
Filmmakers’ Forum: Michael Grady
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
2010 AC Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up
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American Cinematographer - December 2010 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - December 2010 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - December 2010 - Short Takes: “Dot”
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American Cinematographer - December 2010 - A Big-City Dream
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American Cinematographer - December 2010 - Post Focus: 3-D Workflow at Company 3
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American Cinematographer - December 2010 - Tomorrow’s Technology
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American Cinematographer - December 2010 - Filmmakers’ Forum: Michael Grady
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American Cinematographer - December 2010 - New Products & Services
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