American Cinematographer - November 2006 - 61

Left: Tommy, a
trailblazing
surgeon, seeks
a breakthrough
that will help
save Izzy's life.

Below:

Libatique
inspects his
lighting for the
laboratory set.

Proteus," says Libatique. "We talked
lot about

creating sources that
would justify the light we were see¬
ing in space. It was almost like
working backwards. If you're work¬
ing on a normal night exterior
involving a neon light, you try to
augment that; in this case, I would
create the effect of something, and
they had to justify it with a credible
a

or

spun on cue

while

and off as

channels

on

them

the visual

you turn the
it passes over

grid," he says. "In
the case of the tree ship, the image
was that of an oval that spun around
a visual grid representing the 600
Par cans hanging above the set. We
could
to

on

turn

them

on

and off in order

achieve the sensation that the

was

spinning

as

it

rose

ship

toward the

nebula."
To

help tie the different eras
together, the silhouette of the nebu¬
la is mirrored in elements of the sets
created for the film's other two

ods. The bulk of the 2005

peri¬

scenes

take

place in Tommy's lab, where the
filmmakers created

a warm,

rather

inviting ambience. "With the pro¬
duction designer, fames Chinlund,

source."
To augment the Mac 2000s,
Libatique and Lewin used the over¬
head Par cans for chasing effects.

"We did

a

schematic snake pattern,

making it chase at different speeds,"
says the gaffer. "There was a lot of
synchronicity involved, not only on
the sides with the robotic lights, but
also on the top. The console would
design a pattern to make it feel like
the light was moving and encoun¬
tering different environments."
According to Jeff Scott, the show's
best boy electric, the filmmakers
took advantage of a feature on the
console that's normally used with
large LED panels, whereby the user
can import a GIF image onto a
visual grid of the lighting-control
channels. "The image can be moved
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