American Cinematographer - September 2000 - 104

Crimes Against

Humanity

This page: The
camera follows
Jackson and

Douglas

they

as

head to work.
"There are many
static shots [in
the film], so
when we came
out of the
courtroom into
corridors we
tried to walk as
much as

as a

milk

enormous

fixtures

through the windows and a bit of fill
light. Occasionally he added Vs, Va or
V2 CTS to warm up the light at the
end of the day.
Two

Alain Dostie.

scenes were

shot

on

the

recently shuttered
department store that was
transformed into a stately restaurant,
whose interior was copied from an
opulent, turn-of-the-century ocean
liner. The ceiling was 60' high, and
top floor of a

Opposite page:

Montreal

Simoneau,
center, watches
as actors Frank

Burns, left, and
Herbert

Khaup
through a
scene.

-

for all locations:

possible," recalls
cinematographer

run

such

factory, a 200year-old mansion since converted
into a fancy club, and the real peni¬
tentiary - had enormous windows,
they required almost no additional
lighting. Dostie's recipe was the same
sites

recently abandoned factory outside
Montreal that had been demolished,
but the debris hadn't been cleaned
up.

We simply moved the piles of

rubble around with
then built

sets on

a

bulldozer and

top of that. I am

particularly pleased with those

Dostie floated two helium balloon

sequences."
All of the

practical
locations except the courtroom and
two jail cells, and the latter were
constructed because the real prison
cells proved too small to facilitate
camera moves.

sets

lights that filled the whole place with
soft light. The only additional illumi¬
nation came from a few round globes
that were part of the department
store's decor and small, practical
lamps that were placed on each

were

Because most of these

ffour
tash is to

recognize
the

moment

then

adapt

to it

before

it

slips azvau.

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