American Cinematographer - May 1988 - 60

The

Light

and

shooting a movie
talking horse! Reality?
Whoops! It was very easy during
the shoot to slip into that mode. The
we

about

On Her Face

were

a

director, Michael Dinner, and I
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worked with him previously on
Cloak and Dagger.
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pleasant change

the stock broker's of¬
"Dabney
Coleman plays Goldthwait's step¬
father. That set was very complex. It
was a lot of fun to
light. Had a lot of
angles - a lot of glass. Fortunately
the horse never appeared in that
set. It was for humans only. Dabney

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are

out

get him. He finds himself locked

outside the office

on a
ledge, 17
high - and he can't get back
in. They want to ruin him so they
keep him locked out on the ledge
until the price of the stock drops,
after which they plan to let him

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their losses. "To make it appear that
Bobcat was really clinging to this

perilous ledge,

the camera
straight up
alongside the building - right up
past his feet - which shot us into
the ceiling of the stage. We covered
the rigging with a blue backing
painted with clouds and that seem¬
ed to work nicely."
All in all, Kemper was
constantly amazed and pleased at
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