Irretrievable Deeds Clockwise from near right: Skirted rigs are used to illuminate an interior scene; HMIs are employed to maintain the look of a hot summer day indoors; and a China ball helps illuminate a dinner sequence. ors in Shepperton Studios, and the close collaboration between departments was evident throughout the set’s development. “I knew from the scale models they’d made that it was going to be very difficult to get certain angles without seeing through the windows and off the set,” says McGarvey. “So Sarah [Greenwood] made the windows a little deeper, so that when we looked obliquely across them we wouldn’t see outside. I was also keen to have a ceiling fixed in the set; that allowed us to get even wider shots and use low-angle perspectives to really see the scale of the set.” The hard ceiling contributed to the veracity of the set in another, subtler fashion. Evans explains, “The Thames is supposed to be just outside the hospital, so we did a little trick by bouncing 10Ks into shallow trays of water that held pieces of broken mirror. The light reflected off those pools and gave us a little flicker effect on the ceiling.” McGarvey notes that Greenwood’s crew also “made a beautiful painted backdrop — a pale, monochromatic vista of the 44 December 2007