American Cinematographer - June 2006 - 71

built,

as

in

each floor. Mike and his

on

devised
the

well as
a

cranes to

be brought

chain-block system

crew

from

ceiling that allowed us to move a

crane

from

one

level

the

to

next

in

just 20 minutes." Anderson general¬
ly had the run of every set's "ceiling"
Seale adds. "There

area,

were

no

lights up there because after the ship
has capsized, all our lighting came
up from the floor."
This lighting approach was
inspired not only by logic, but also
by the Oscar-nominated cine¬
matography of Harold Stine, ASC
The Poseidon Adventure (AC
Sept. '72). "We studied that film
on

during prep, and it's with the great¬
est respect that I say it taught us we
had to be absolutely religious about
lighting from underneath after the
ship turned," says Seale. "In every
shot or scene where they cheated the
light in the original film - coming
in from the side or a little higher to
get better modeling or separation
-

it's noticeable. It has

a

'studio'

look.

Wolfgang noted right away
that if the lighting didn't come from

below, the illusion would be ruined,
and I

agreed. Wolfgang said, 'I want
frame to help establish that
the ship is upside-down.' So we did
it. The lighting had to be from the
every

floor, but I didn't
Hammer

want

Films

that kind of

horror-movie

uplighting, with all the problems on
the faces."
With the ship's overhead
lighting motivating Seale's uplight¬
ing, he relied primarily on a mixture
of Kino Flo and HydroFlex fluores¬
cent

units,

as

well

as

"all

manner

little fixtures hidden behind

of

assort¬

ed

junk floating in the water. There
where we had light¬
ing higher than the actors' eyeline,
set in the upside-down ballroom.
The shots were so wide that the only
practical lighting we could get in
there were the two huge chandeliers
jutting up from what was now the
floor. They were about 10 feet high
and 8 feet in diameter. To supplewas one scene

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