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Haris Zambarloukos [BSC], sobre "Thor":
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Haris Zambarloukos [BSC], sobre "Thor":
Your most recent film “Thor,” was shot in anamorphic. Do you find that with the increasing use of digital, it is easier, or harder, to shoot widescreen?
HZ: There was a decision to have a 2:40 aspect ratio from the beginning. That was decided by the director [Kenneth Branagh]. Ken is a big fan of the biggest format he can get. He’s one of the few people who has shot 65mm. We did discuss shooting “Thor” in 65mm, and Marvel Entertainment, to my great surprise, was quite enthusiastic about that. But it was Ken, who had experience with it, who felt it wasn’t the wisest thing to do, because he was very ambitious in the camera movements he hoped to achieve. Because of the size of the equipment, the crane moves, and the amount of cameras we were going to use, including multiple units, we stayed away from shooting 65mm. Digital was discussed, but I was very much opposed to it, and so was Ken, so that battle we won very quickly. The discussion was about spherical versus anamorphic, but the discussion mainly stemmed from a request from the VFX supervisor, Wesley Sewel. He was concerned that a lot of films with special effects have such a narrow depth of field: if the focus falls off just behind the ears, for example, how are they going to create what’s real behind it? I have noticed the trend is to shoot wide open, and although it’s an interesting look, I didn’t feel that was the right look for “Thor.” We did all kinds of tests and even got into a very elaborate discussion about depth of field, to where we had schematics about it. But we came to the conclusion that we could do it anamorphically, and I am really glad we did. Wes lovesthe anamorphic look of the film, and he could completely see how it was great for portraiture as well, and how it had an epic look to it. We shot a bunch of scenes with flares, and with a CG background environment, he wanted to include some of those flares in 2 or 3 shots that existed. Wes came on board, but only after he agreed with what we were doing. I shoot at a T4 anyway, and I knew I had to shoot up to 360 frames per second. We designed and built our lighting for that and it had the added benefit that if I wanted to shoot at T11, we could also get more depth of field. We used the PhotoSonics camera, in conjunction with the anamorphic lenses we used on the main camera.
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