◗ Electric Hero Top: Opaloch, Blomkamp and crew prepare for an action scene. Bottom: Ninja (playing himself) is caught amid the chaos. 50 April 2015 American Cinematographer by a police helicopter's searchlight, but Opaloch describes the effect as "underwhelming." Barnes adds, "We used an ArriMax 18/12K on a 120-foot [Condor] to supplement the searchlight, and our Dino package on cherry pickers - eight separate units - helped to backlight [the action]." The crew also panned several large Xenon lights, positioned high up on scaffolds and lifts, across buildings and rioters. For most other night exteriors, Barnes says, "we played off the color of practical street lights, which were often supplemented with additional fixtures from our art department [led by Emelia Weavind]. Generally we went with sodium-vapor bubbles." Opaloch and Muller established a look-up table that lowered and cooled the Epic's default black levels. "It also slightly brought down the general saturation but still kept the feeling warm