American Cinematographer - September 2006 - 50

Darkest Noir
Right: Seeking
leads in the
case,

Bleichert

questions

an

actress in her

moodily lit
apartment.
Below: A

lighting balloon
illuminates

a

Beachwood

Canyon
bungalow, built
in

an area

of

Bulgaria that
resembles the

Hollywood Hills.
Zsigmond notes
that the
illumination
from balloons
can

be hard to

control, but adds
that "the

digital

intermediate
rescued us by

allowing

us to

tone down the

parts of the
scene

that

were

too hot and

make it look like
a

dark, moonlit

night."

promise I wouldn't get too fancy,
and that I wouldn't spend five or six
weeks doing the work. I knew that if
I lit the movie properly, I wouldn't
have to spend as much time on the
DI. In the end, the grade took about

14

chance

days."
Colorist Mike Sowa confirms

that LaserPacific

tackle
the 4K process on Dahlia, not only
because of the project's prestige, but
also because it gave the facility the
was

eager to

streamline its DI work-

to

flow. "At that
done 2K

point, we had only
projects," says Sowa. "We

had

limitations in

some

terms

of 4K

data storage, rendering time, and
the amount of time it takes to record

-

to

negative, which is

a very

slow

process when you're dealing with 4K
files. On Black Dahlia, we were able
to

smooth

out some

Sowa

had

never

primary

of those issues."

adds, "Because Vilmos
a DI before, his

done

whether what
looking at would translate
to film. That's a pretty typical fear if
a
cinematographer hasn't done a DI,
but we took great pains to ensure the
quality of the images before Vilmos
concern was

we were

saw

them. We did

out tests to

some

little film-

show him, and

they were

right on."
The DI

was

carried

Discreet Lustre, and the

out on a

footage was
33x13' screen with a
2K Christie "Black-Chip" (or DLP)
Digital Cinema Projector. Sowa says
Zsigmond's mandate for the look
was "desaturated sepia." The cineprojected

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