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Up Against It
The canyon sets were built in an old granite factory in Salt Lake City. “Every crack and curve were as close to the real thing as you could get,” recalls Dod Mantle. Right: Dod Mantle and Chediak confer during the shoot.
the size of a public lavatory, it was also a great advantage; the cameras were so small that we could shoot simultaneously with three or four of them without getting them in shot or interfering with the lighting.” Directing from behind monitors outside the set, Boyle became acutely aware of Franco’s relationship with the cameras around him. “The cameras become like creatures with him,” says the director. “In most movies, a trapped character might develop a relationship
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with something like a rodent, but Aron develops that relationship with the camera. Sometimes I would tell James to look directly at our cameras, not because he was directly addressing them, but because it just felt right. We’re watching him, and it feels like he can look at us. The cameras became his companions.” As an extension of Franco’s relationship with the cameras, his relationship with Chediak and Dod Mantle was extremely close. Chediak explains,
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“Danny wanted to put us in the same situation as Aron and push us to work with those constraints, to find the angles within that confinement. A lot of the time, I was breathing right in James’ ear; it was really very intimate. If he moved even a little bit, then the camera had to move as well. It puts the audience right in there with him.” Having created such a restrictive environment, Boyle could not direct the action in any conventional sense. “We were in this hole with this little speaker through which you could sometimes hear Danny very close, like the voice of God!” recalls Dod Mantle. Often, however, neither actor nor cinematographer could actually hear Boyle’s instructions, and they instead had to rely on instinct through takes that could last up to 20 minutes. “Just as being locked in that space influenced James’ performance, it influenced us,” says Dod Mantle. “Eventually, we began to do things instinctively, even irrationally, because the camera was emotionally involved.” Though much of the camera-
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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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