American Cinematographer - December 2019 - 76

Father and Son
u Operator
Matías Mesa -
a "maestro of
Steadicam,"
Braier attests -
captures a
moment with
Jupe. uq The
Luminair app
was used to
control a portion
of the lighting.

different proportions."
Lighting the pool area began
with six preexisting mercury-vapor
streetlights. A SkyPanel S30-C was
rigged to the top of each lamppost,
augmenting their greenish light. The
pink of the motel's neon sign
was extended and exaggerated
with a gelled 6K on a condor, as
well as a wireless Voyager tube
that added illumination to the
pool. Another condor with six
SkyPanel
S60-Cs
aimed
through a 12'x12' Quarter Grid
was dialed to "the equivalent
[of] Peacock Blue/Turquoise
gel," Braier says, which was
intended to emulate "a
mercury-type streetlight, or a
sign coming from a building
out of shot." All added up to a
dreamy feeling in the pool,
carried over into the motel
room with Astera tubes. The

Asteras again came into play inside
the strip club.
Given the production's shoestring budget, there wasn't much
ability to alter locations. They did,
however, manage to paint interiors at

Braier kept a Tiffen Ultra
Contrast 1⁄8 filter on the lens at
all times. "I like a little bit of
diffusion on my highlights," she
says. "I also like to paint on the
filter and texture things a bit,
to get [the image] out of focus
on the edges. [I use] different
brushes and different liquid
substances. I carry a pouch of
brushes like a makeup person,
and I have a box with 20 different jars with different
substances/textures."
76

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the Pink Motel in Sun Valley, Calif.,
taking it from flamingo pink to a dark
teal blue. "We wanted a color palette
reminiscent of posters from the old
rodeos," Braier relates. "They have
this old, rusty, earthy quality, with
blues, yellows, oranges and reds."
Honey Boy's most difficult and
costly shots were not the action-film
escapades and fiery explosions that
begin the movie in the montage of
Otis-as-star. Rather, it was the motorcycle shots peppered throughout the
film - father and son's sole means of
transportation. "We had a very
specific idea of how we wanted to
portray those different moments, and
how the physical contact was different from one scene to the next,"
Braier relates. Early on, for instance, a



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