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For

a

POV shot

of

"We had very

plane
crashing,
a

pipes behind the preacher pop by
having an interesting pattern in the
background." To achieve this, he
borrowed two 1K Fresnels and placed
them on the ground, pointing up, on the
right and left sides of the organ.
Because there was no time to rig Cstands, grips were stationed in each of
the chapel's balconies, where they
organ

director of

photography
Rob Leitzell

wrapped a $200
camcorder in

Styrofoam and
crashed it into
trees

specific needs for that

scene," he recalls. "I wanted make the

and

telephone
poles.

handheld 1K

or

2K units aimed at the

actor's face.
For

could check out from the school," recalls
Leitzell. "On

a

good day we had two 2Ks

and two 1 Ks, and once in awhile we had
a

Kino Flo. At many

[such

of

our

locations

semi-abandoned warehouse
as the Tinman's home], it
hard to get power rigged, and we

didn't have
few shots

a

generator, so at least a
lit

by our cars' head¬
lights." Armed with plenty of C-stands
were

silks and

only two flags, Leitzell
light off anything he could:
walls, old Styrofoam boards and stickno

bounced

on

One of the most complex

lighting

setups involved a scene where the town

preacher rallies his flock. Shot in a
had
had
few lights and a large area to cover.
campus chapel where the crew
almost no time to set up, Leitzell

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Leitzell

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the church

filming the backs of their
a lot of setups that
worked like that," says Leitzell. "Ray
and I are very good friends, and we've
worked together enough that we feed
off each other and communicate easily."
The rear projection also proved
challenging, but it gave Tintori and
heads. "We had

mirrors.

as a

that served
was

but

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