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IS DIVINE
“The ETERNA 250D was great with the mixed light we had in the church.”
THE DP VIEW
FCHARLOTTE BRUUS CHRISTENSEN
or a key flashback scene we focused the camera on a child, without any detail of what else was going on. I had a bungee; it’s like a rubber piece of tube
you can get from a hospital, and it’s really elastic and very strong.
We tied it a couple of times round the camera and our steadicam operator – who was a big strong guy – supported the weight. The tube allowed me to move the camera with very soft movements. I could manipu- late it in a very fluid way.
When it’s low budget you become creative and sometimes that actually works out quite well in terms of telling the story.
But from the beginning the thing that interested me was telling this guy’s story, it was never about amazing lighting for its own sake. It had to be honest, and that appeals to me a lot.” ■
Photo main: Craig Conway as Malky, bumps into his abuser nineteen years after the event (Photo Owen Billcliffe); above l-r: James Ellis as the priest (Photo Ludwig Shammasian); Craig Conway (left) playing the true life of BAFTA winning writer Geoff Thompson (right) (Photo Owen Billcliffe); Paul and Ludwig Shammasian (Photos Kaush Bharti); the poster for Romans 12:20
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