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Top: Sister Carmencita
takes flight after
Pinochet " converts "
her. Bottom: Lachman
lauded the ambience
provided by the
production's highly
textured sets.
were also deployed in the refrigerated storage room, and in the treasure
room where Pinochet stores prized possessions collected over the years.
Lachman offers, " The idea for those areas, and in the rest of the house,
was that the lighting and furniture was always makeshift, without the
characters thinking about any style or decor. "
Blood Work
Lachman worked closely with production designer Rodrigo Bazaes; costume
designer Muriel Parra; and the head of the show's makeup and
hairstyle department, Margarita Marchi, to add the appropriate textures
and gradations to the onscreen images. " Knowing that we would be
shooting in black-and-white guided our designs for the wall textures,
the wardrobe and everything else, " Lachman observes. " We darkened
and aged the walls to provide contrast against the characters and applied
textures to the sets to enhance the feeling of the debilitating
environment. "
Of course, one key consideration in any vampire movie is blood, but
the movie's black-and-white format led the team to settle on a blue-colored
substance. " We did tests with the blood, and the red came through
beautifully rich and deep, " Lachman says, " but when we tried blue, it
gave the blood more of a luminosity and transparency I never would
have gotten with red. "
Up in the Air
Some of the film's most magical, transcendent scenes occur when Pinochet
and the young nun - whom the dictator finds inviting enough to
bite - take to the air thanks to their vampiric ability to fly. Scenes involving
Pinochet flying at night were shot on a stage against bluescreen
with a color LF camera, provided by Congo Films in Colombia, and then
converted to black-and-white. However, the flying sequence with Sister

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