American Cinematographer - December 1988 - 50

Right: Steve
(Aykroyd) and his
daughter (Alyson
Hannigan) are
served a healthy
breakfast by the
alien. Below:

Lovitz, Aykroyd
and Basinger at the

interplanetary
nupital.

off from the TV frame, but not

enough to- matter."
The

worm

advises Ba¬

on the strange customs of
the human race. Images which are

singer

designed to be instructional, but
are

hilarious to the audience, are

projected onto thin air by the Apo¬
gee crew. Of course Kline had a
strong hand in the scene as well.
"For the

scene

in which Kim is

taught to kiss,

we selected archival
'kiss' material," he relates. "We

planned it so that during the scene,
she could refer to the images pro¬
jected just offstage. This way, she
could watch
imitate the

had to

pull this

one out

of the air."

"The worm," Kim's

diums: normal 1:1.85, and then the
television format. We had to put a
to block

nonexistent screen,

the art of kissing. Later, the pro¬
jected images were added to
the scene by Apogee, and they
matched Kim's mimic correctly.
We also preplaced some reactive
lighting in the scene, so light from
the projected image seems to play

looking companion and advisor,
had many scenes and presented
Kline with some slight difficulties.
"One of the problems was that it

hard matte in the

television area. If we set the shot up
with the bottom of the theatrical

in the room,

had to be maneuvered from below

frame

the purse,
Kline. "Of

the bottom would still show up on
TV. So we masked that out with the

pulled out his bag of
of the purse shots,
which required the handbag to
light up in various colors, repre-

film,

48

odd¬

a

kisses, and try to learn

we

American

a hole," says
when we shoot a

through
course

off the

areas

camera

above and below the

halfway through the

purse,

generally shoot in two me¬

hard matte. This way we cut a

Cinematographer

December 1988

little

much like

a

television

set would."

Kline

tricks for

some



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