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BRIAN TUFANO BSC
“I’m really concentrating within the confines of the viewfinder, and because of the way my brain works,
I’m checking out all the details that are happening in that frame.”
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Jonathan Pryce and Paddy Considine, shot in just 21 days on 35mm mostly on location with just one build – a Regent’s Park Regency House roof gar- den - at Elstree studios.
“I mostly used the ETERNA 250T with the ETERNA 500T for the studio - I’m not a great Daylight Balanced film man - and I was very pleased. It has a very extended tonal range at both ends of the Gamma curve, colour satu- ration and definition.”
He then used ETERNA 250T for Adulthood, which in addition to Clarke, also making his debut as a director, co-starred a number of the same actors from Kidulthood, a tale from the streets, which takes up the story of Sam (Clarke), six years after he went to prison.
No stranger to working with first- time feature directors - Damien O’Donnell (East Is East), Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot), Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave) and Menhaj Huda (Kidulthood) among them - Tufano is clearly a very sympathetic collaborator.
“I would say to Noel: what is it you’re looking for from your character in this particular scene? Then during actual shooting, I would watch closely what was happening, after which he and I would go away and have quiet discussions about what I’d just seen through the camera and how I thought it could be improved or changed. Then we’d go again.
“Co-directing? Not really. I am just doing my job as a DP. As I operate as well, I see the action before everybody else. Because I’m really concentrating within the confines of the viewfinder, and because of the way my brain works, I’m checking out all the details that are happening in that frame.
Unlike Kidulthood, Adulthood was shot on 16mm. “It’s going through the D/I process so at the end of the day we can make it look pretty good. Like Kidulthood, it’s virtually all hand-held.
“I used the new Arri 416 to see what it was like. It is an excellent, well designed camera, slightly heavier than the Aaton, but that was not a problem as I still work out. Anyway, I’ve got a good osteopath in Barrie Savory, he straightens my back out after every film.” ■QUENTIN FALK
My Zinc Bed was originated on 35mm Fujicolor ETERNA 250T 8553 and ETERNA 500T 8573; Adulthood was originated on 16mm ETERNA 250T 8653
Photo above: Noel Clarke, writer, director and star of Adulthood. (Photo: Cuong Dang);
far left: a scene from Shallow Grave; left: the cast of East Is East
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