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Left, top and bottom: Alice breaks into the song “I’m a Good Girl.” Above (front to back): C-camera 1st AC Justin Chefe, C-camera operator Paul Sanchez, Loungway, B-camera 1st AC John Szajner and Hudson capture the glamour.

your meter is 1⁄3 of a stop. If you stretch it less, you lose more light and the image becomes more diffused.” Shooting Burlesque on film was never in question. “It would be very hard to shoot this movie with anything but film,” asserts Bazelli. “When beauty is of the essence and you have strong It also carries the ambient light into the light that comes onto the lens is scatlights tearing through the smoke and a shadows, so the blacks are more transtered by the filter, decreasing its capawide contrast between light and parent, more like a painting. And it bility to handle the flare.” shadow, I think a digital camera would looked great with the moving lights we Bazelli prefers to use a thin net or totally freeze.” The filmmakers initially used as part of the stage lighting.” stocking on the back of the lens to considered shooting scenes set in the The cinematographer shot close- knock down the sharpness of the Burlesque Lounge on one film stock ups with 75mm or 100mm Cooke image. “We tried many nets until we and the rest of the picture on a different Panchro lenses, “an older, smokier found the ones we liked. I like Fogal, a film stock, but Bazelli ultimately glass,” and he decided to do without French stocking that’s very smooth and decided to use one negative, Kodak filtration on the lens, apart from ND not so thick.” Many effects are possible, Vision3 250D 5207, and change the filters. “We could stack five Double Fog from chromatic aberrations in colors to color and tonality of his lighting to filters in front of the camera and the geometric artifacts in lens flares. “How achieve the different looks. “The decifaces would look amazingly soft, but it you stretch it on the lens, how tight or sion to use a daylight-balanced film wouldn’t look real or be appropriate for loose it is, and how dark the material is stock had to do with the flesh tones, a modern story,” says Bazelli. “If you will affect your image. If it’s very light and all the moving lights are daylightput diffusion in front of the lens, the and you stretch it all the way, the loss by balanced,” he says. “5207 has a softer
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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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