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dead bodies

lying all around [in that

had to do the master
again, and by the time we got to the
coverage of the kids in close-up, the
boys were completely distracted and
we were losing light. I had to change
to the faster stock and set up lights,

shot]. So

we

work with the

and then Luis had

to

kids very quickly in

order to get them

in the moment for the

scene.

It

worked, and we got the shots."
The most

cated

scenes

logistically compli¬
were

the

battle

Two of these take place at
night in the shack where Chava and
his family live. When the shooting
starts, everybody dives to the floor.
sequences.

To

distract

the

children, Kella's

brother

grabs his guitar and, while
lying on his back, starts softly
singing "Casas de Carton," a proCommunist song that was forbidden
by the Salvadoran government for
many years. Ruiz-Anchia positioned
the camera directly above the actor,
using a Hothead hanging from a
Lenny Arm. In a single move, the lens
still

zooms

and

out

while the

camera

twists

up through the ceiling
and above the roof to reveal the
moves

entire

village under assault.
To light the wide shot of the
village, the Maxi-Brutes were posi¬
tioned

on

Condors off to

one

side of

the town, and a Xenon was

placed on
nearby hilltop to simulate a sweep¬
ing spotlight. "It was a little bit of a
nightmare," says the cinematogra¬
pher.
For a later night scene that
shows the children walking through
the jungle to a guerrilla camp, there
was no room to elevate a large light,
so the crew positioned small tung¬
sten lamps on stands and placed tree

a

branches in the front of them. "I
didn't

the

light to be too
bright," says Ruiz-Anchia. "During
the digital grade, I used Power
want

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create

to

more

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areas

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