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UNDERCURRENT, AKA BRIM, WAS ORIGINATED ON 35MM FUJICOLOR ETERNA 500T 8573. ÁGÚSTSSON’S PREVIOUS WORK INCLUDES THE C4 COMEDY SERIES FREE AGENTS
AND THE BBC TWO COMEDY/DRAMA ROYAL WEDDING
would give me a two or three stops under the healthy ‘wide open’ on the lenses (T1.4).
Constantly shooting wide open and handheld with both the ship and actors moving, my focus puller had the really tough job of keeping it all in focus with such short depth of field, especially as we didn’t go wider then 25mm most of the time, as I thought going wider within the tight spaces would take away the feeling of claus- trophobia, another ‘character’, as it were, in the story.
details in the blacks as well as the lati- tude I really needed.
After seven gruelling weeks within the confines of the boat, with most of the crew seasick at some point or the other, extreme weather conditions and in generally harsh circumstances, there would at least be some pleasant surprises when I sat down to do the final colour grade with my great colourist Wiktor Sasim.
its wide range of latitude and
I realised I could do anything I needed with the material be- cause the ETERNA 500T stock
had performed superbly with
Photo Main: Trawling for drama in Undercurrent; Top: G Magni Ágústsson with, behind him, director Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson; Above: actress Nína Dogg Fillipusdóttir
While my focus puller kept every-
thing in exquisite focus, the stock per-
formed extraordinarily, giving me the its virtually grainless structure. ”
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