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by the way.”In one of the film’s most stylizedsequences, Mambetova stands in a Plexiglastank that covers her torso, and it’s full ofbutterflies. Shooting against a white background,Romano toplit the actress with aheavily diffused 10K Fresnel and aimed twoNine-light Maxi-Brutes at the background.Once the butterflies were in the tank, thefilmmakers sat back and waited for somethingto happen.“Bugs, puppies and little kids arearduous to photograph because there’s noway you can corral them,” says the cinematographer.“The beauty of the Phantomis its circular buffer. When you shootanything above 450 fps at 1920x1080 onthe Phantom HD Gold, as long as thecamera is on, you’re always recording intoits internal circular memory buffer. If you usewhat’s called a ‘post-trigger,’ you can hit therecord button after the action is done, andyou’ve got the shot. At 1,000 fps, you get4.4 seconds of data [in the internalmemory], approximately 2.7 minutes offootage.”The girl’s reality is literally shattered— at 1,000 fps — when shock troopers inriot gear crash through her reflection in amirror. To give the shot a harsh look,Romano used thinner diffusion on the 10Kand 5K.“We were fighting the light in thatscene,” he recalls. “It wasn’t a front-surfacemirror, so I was getting two reflections frommy light sources: one from the glass andone from the mirrored surface behind theglass. It took a bit of finesse to get it right —a combination of the mirror angle, diffusionand precise cutting of the light.”String Theory’s trippy imagespresented Romano with some creativeopportunities he hadn’t encounteredbefore. “When David Dumas first describedthis film to me, I have to admit I really didn’tunderstand it,” he says. “While we wereshooting, I started to see what he and Zachwere going for, and now I’m reallyimpressed with every part of it.” ●Top and middle: Romano depended on the Phantom HD Gold camera’s internal memory buffer tocapture stylized sequences with live butterflies. Bottom: The cinematographer finds his light.18 January 2012 American Cinematographer
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