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Backstage Drama
Top: Riggan and another co-star, Lesley (Naomi Watts), try to convince each other that the play is
on sure footing. Bottom: With Lubezki looking over his shoulder, Iñárritu plans a shot with
Watts and Andrea Riseborough.
ballasts for fluorescents that are very
smooth and can go down almost to zero
without any flickering effects. If fluorescents don't have these special ballasts,
they will flicker at a certain point.
"LiteGear also custom-built
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dimmable LED fixtures for us that
could mimic tungstens and fluorescents," the gaffer continues. "These were
used in locations where we couldn't fit
real fluorescents - the art department
built boxes around them so they looked
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like fluorescent fixtures. We used them
both at the St. James Theatre and on the
Kaufman set." Sciretta is especially
appreciative of the technical assistance
offered by gaffer Michael Bauman.
Lubezki worked with Tonywinning lighting designer Peter
Kaczorowski to create a traditional
theater-lighting setup on the St. James
stage, so that "the audience feels they are
watching something real," he says.
To add supplemental ambient
light, Lubezki drew from his experience
on Gravity and placed Pixled F-11
LED walls - procured from XL Video
- above the stage. "We didn't want to
use movie lights, and LEDs are much
more versatile than any other light,"
Lubezki submits. "We hung the panels
almost, but not quite, straight above the
actors; otherwise, the light would have
been too toppy. The LED wall emits
what feels like theater lighting, which
we wanted, and it looked like it was part
of the stage design." Chris Herman
from Catalyst LED was brought in to
program the LED wall.
Yet another tech, Kelly Britt, was
on hand to tweak the dimmer modules
so they'd have the smoothest dimming
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