◗ Promoting “The Cause” match,” says Malaimare. “We wanted to get it right even if it was a difference of just one point. Sometimes we sent prints from one lab to the other, and sometimes it was a digital still reference from the set. Having all of our dailies on 35mm allowed us to come up with many notes for the final photochemical timing.” The director supervised the final timing with colorist and ASC associate member Dan Muscarella at FotoKem because Malaimare had to depart for another project. Muscarella viewed the timed prints over a light box through special RGB gel filters in point increments between 1 and 20. Using the RGB point adjustments from the dailies print as a starting point, he used the gels to discern the number of color points needed to fine-tune a given scene. The new point adjustments were entered into a computer-controlled optical printer to create the final timed interpositive. “Paul and I were smoothing Out in the desert, Quell takes his turn at Dodd’s “Pick a Point” motorcycle challenge. film dailies on location. For Malaimare, the process of photochemically timing the dailies took him back to his filmschool days at the National University of Theatre and Film in Romania. “I remember measuring my work with a densitometer and drawing curves,” he says. “Then we had to deal with printing the negative.” The filmmakers had the 35mm dailies timed to the optical-reduction print, but because the negatives came from different labs, “it took a little tweaking to make those processes 50http://www.filmo-usa.com http://www.filmo-usa.com