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1-Man Riot Squad Right: The Punisher lights up his meeting with the Don who ordered the hit on his family. Below: To supplement the practical flare in the fabricated set, Gainer and gaffer Eames Gagnon put close to 400 kilowatts of light through red gel. Windows and a fireplace motivated fill. ex-military man whose family was murdered by the mob. Unable to cope with the loss of his loved ones, he dons the mantle of a vigilante and goes on a murder spree of his own, taking down every bad guy in his path. The latest series of Punisher adventures, penned by Garth Ennis, are among the tale’s darkest and most violent both in look and feel; the moody, bloodsoaked artwork is rendered in a harsh palette dominated by purple, green, steel blue and chrome orange. This is the work that inspired Alexander and Gainer. A $40 million budget might sound like a lot of money, but for a comic-book adaptation, it wasn’t, especially when movies such as Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk command budgets north of $100 million. War Zone needed to look big and expensive, and that’s where the production benefited from Gainer’s low-budget experience. (“I prefer the term ‘guerilla filmmaking,’” he says with a wry smile.) Gainer wanted to give the movie a bold look, but complicated greenscreen work was out of the question for financial reasons; therefore, the distinctive Punisher style would have to be achieved practically. “I wasn’t going to try to make it look exactly like the comic because that’s impossible,” notes Gainer. “Some of the colors they use just don’t translate that well into film, so we had to narrow our ideas down to what would look good on film as a big, saturated color.” Several preproduction lighting tests were scheduled to work out a look for the villain Jigsaw (Dominic West, wearing extensive prosthetic makeup), and Gainer saw these as an ideal opportunity to try out a wide range of color gels. Working with gaffer Eames Gagnon, he rigged a studio with a battery of HMIs and tungsten lights wired to a dimmer console. West would come in for a half-hour of 64 December 2008

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American Cinematographer - December 2008
Contents
Editor’s Note
Short Takes: True Blood Titles
Tomorrow’s Technology
Production Slate: Closer to Truth
A High Price for Progress
Rags to Riches
1-Man Riot Squad
The State of the Art: An Update
Post Focus: Deluxe New York
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
2008 AC Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Donald McAlpine
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American Cinematographer - December 2008 - Editor’s Note
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