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mation and better information than I could with any of the digital formats I’ve tested. But I shoot film differently than I used to. I don’t use filters at all. The less glass you can put in front of the lens, the better, and I can do that kind of image correction in the DI.” He also makes a lot of lighting adjustments in post. “There’s a scene in this movie where Matt is sitting in an interrogation room with his head down, and you can’t see his eyes,” he says. “When we shot it, I tried to put an eyelight in, but I hated the way it made him look ‘lit.’ So I took it away, and in the DI we drew two windows around his eyes and created an eyelight. It worked very effectively and looked far less artificial than the real eyelight did.” On Bourne Ultimatum, there were occasionally frustrating moments in the DI because a lot of that work had to be done before material from reshoots and visual-effects houses became available. Working
with colorist Stephen Nakamura at Technicolor Digital Intermediates in Burbank, Wood had to contend with the fact that “every other scene had a big black card that said, ‘Missing.’ So much of timing a movie is about blending. I’ve shot sequences that were done half in a blizzard and half in full sunshine, and then I’d work with the timer to make it look consistent. That’s what timing is about. So when you’re missing a lot of shots, you’re limited in how much you can accomplish.” Nakamura adds, “If there are a lot of shots missing we can’t finalize a scene. Effects artists sometimes think their shots can just be cut in, but they still need to be color-corrected. It’s not enough for the shots to look good by themselves; the contrast and color have to work in the context of the surrounding shots.” Having said that, Nakamura adds, “I’ve used fewer windows and less video color correction for this
film than for any movie I’ve graded in the past three years. It’s the look of the franchise — if there’s a flare or if something is a little soft, that’s okay.” “I think that in the end, as long as it’s cool the audience will go for it,” says Wood. I
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Contents
Editor’s Note
Global Village
DVD Playback
Production Slate
Bourne Again
Cultural Immersion
Baroque Visions
Once Upon a Time in Bucharest
Short Takes
Post Focus
Filmmakers’ Forum
New Products & Services
Points East
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
Wrap Shot
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