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Director Guy Ritchie Explains a Scene in “Revolver”
Published by Matthew Jeppsen December 17th, 2007 in Lenses, News, Off Topic
NYT has a interesting video segment up, a short scene from “Revolver,” Guy Ritchie’s new film from across the pond. He talks about how they lit the scene with four 20K lights (!!!) and used a “special lens” that allowed them to keep both near and far subjects in focus. Sounds to me like a lens with an absurdly high f-stop rating. Ritchie also outlines the point he was trying to convey in the scene. It’s interesting to note that the Times gives the viewer the option of mixing the director’s voiceover with the film audio as they please.
(Via Flippant News)
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Sounds like a split diopter lens to me.
Sounds like a pinhole lens to me: near-zero aperture = tons of light needed. Incredible DOF, though.
It seems that Guy is making more of these shot than it really is. The Innovision probe has been doing this type of thing it for years (mid 90s).
http://www.innovisionoptics.com/prod/probe2.shtml
I believe at one time they even had a chess piece scenario as part of their demo reel.
As for the 20k, the probe is a light hog so some 20k or maxi-brutes through a 12×12 diffusion frame would be just about right.
You’d think they might have decided to use a support/dolly/operator that didn’t allow so much bounceback in the moves. That kind of inertial camera movement is awfully distracting when pieces are scaled to such proportions and so dominant in the shot.
The focus in 1:03 - 1:07 looks like a tilted focal plane, but with the focus on the shirt collar and not his eyes, it’s also very distracting.
But it’s probably hard to monitor at f/128 with 60K worth of light in the room.
Revolver is a self indulgent turd of a film. Ritchie’s reputation is at rock bottom after the film was universally panned and with good reason. Just listen to the script it is hilariously bad.