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Cultural Immersion
Top left: Todd’s room was a fourth-floor location in Mumbai that offered a great view of a natural pool but was otherwise less than picturesque. Top right: Production designer Fali Unwalla’s transformation of the space. Below: Outside the windows, the lighting team prepares to send some manmade “daylight” into the room.
handling negative. But the Kodak lab was immaculate, and their work was very detailed. At that point they were really just doing commercials, so they were set up to handle only about 5,000 feet of film a day, and occasionally we’d overwhelm them and they’d fall behind. But their quality control was excellent.” When it came time to secure a camera package, Maniaci discovered that most of the gear in India is tailored to anamorphic shows with non-sync sound. He very quickly found out why: “There’s so much noise in India they have to dub all their movies after the fact. During the shoot, we had to cancel numerous locations because we’d arrive to find it was next to a super-highway construction site or a temple with banging gongs. I have to give a lot of credit to our sound recorder, Judy
Karp, because this was the most insane production to record audio for.” Although Jeffcoat was initially keen on a widescreen format, Maniaci and the producers convinced him to go with 1.85:1. “When you think about Indian films it’s hard not to think of widescreen,” says the director, “but we had a lot of night material, which would have made anamorphic tricky, and it was difficult to find two solid cameras that were set up for Super 35mm — we had to have two because we couldn’t afford to lose any days.” The production eventually obtained two Arri 535Bs and a set of Cooke S4 prime lenses. “When you rent a camera in India it comes with three attendants who maintain it — kind of like a first, a second and a loader — and if anything happens
to that camera those three gentlemen are out of a job, so the cameras are kept in great condition,” says Maniaci. “I was more concerned about lenses because the quality of the anamorphic lenses I’d looked at seemed kind of shoddy. But we got a new set of S4s, and the Arri rep in Mumbai put us in touch with a lens technician in Hyderabad who had trained in Germany, and he gave the lenses a ‘spa treatment.’ We ran tests and everything looked good.” While shooting tests, Maniaci discovered another effect of India’s non-sync-sound filmmaking: “Indian crews make a lot of their own small lights, and because they don’t use sync sound they build fans into the instruments to keep them cool. I kept hearing this buzzing and whirring during our tests and realized none of those lights would be
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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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