American Cinematographer - June 1988 - 32

Right: Ford, in un¬
derground parking
area, as more

dan¬

ger approaches.
Below: Seigner
looks down at
stricken hero

as

he

struggles back to
consciousness in

yet another 'fran¬
tic'

episode of the

film.

source of his approach. "I
a lot when
lighting for

ing as the
did learn

multi-camera television shows. You
had to work fast, and to create logi¬
cal

lighting for three

or

more

cameras."
He likes to draw his

light¬
ing concept for a given scene by
studying the natural light and then
trying to build it up. "Of course
there are interiors where you have
to create your own lighting. In
Frantic we had the underground
parking structures, where some of
the chase scenes took place. For
these areas I created my own light¬
ing scheme to suit our needs. Yet, I
had to gel my lights to balance
them to the color of the fluorescent
tubes visible in the shots. I tried to
about

blocking a scene. Only after
many rehearsals, first in a rehearsal
hall and finally on the real set, does
the style emerge. We don't discuss
style as such in great detail, but
there

give

are some

me a

code words which

direction. In Pirates the

code words

were

This indicated the

many

30

"comic

strip."

style. We

see

films together. Before shoot-

American

Cinematographer

ingh Frantic

we watched Citizen
Kane to discuss the intensity of the

composition and the depth of the
image."
Sobocinski

believes

a larger area than what was
outlined in the rehearsal. This gave
Roman

freedom in his mise

en

"My order in lighting

a

more

scene.

in

taking his time when lighting the
master shot, but needs only minor
light adjustments for the subse¬
quent close-ups. He sees his early
training in television studio light¬

June 1988

light

I know the action, is to
position the most obvious lights
first. You could say that I start from
scene, once

the easiest and then work out the

finer

lighting

nuances.

I only

mea-



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