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THE DP VIEW
CRIGHTON BONE
ur very first location on the film was shot day for night inside a cafe on the two hottest days of the summer. With all the windows blacked
out, the temperature was soon over 40 degrees inside.
These scenes were shot at around 2.8 and luckily I had a wonderful focus puller, Dan Trapp, loader Rami Bartholdy and trainee Ang Richards who not only kept the mood very light but were also able to concentrate and on a scene which had a blow-up doll as a main player.
Even in the middle of prep, we didn’t know if Carmen Electra was going to play Candy. I was worried she’d turn up with an orange Baywatch tan, and play all her scenes next to our pasty English actors, with their skin tones really contrasting. Steve Surjik managed to quell my skin tone fear by convincing me that if she did have an orange tan it would be more fitting of her character.
When she walked onto set she looked really fabulous; thank good- ness, her tan was natural. I only had to swap the key light to the other side to compensate for her fringe with a big flick, which was like a mini flag that sat out three inches of the right hand side of her face. From then on, I always keyed her from dead on or the left. ■
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