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THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI SHOOT STORY

three or four times a year. Nowwith the ALEXA 65 camera that’s all you can use to record such a huge amount of data. The way Codex would work in Three Billboards was to record the 2.8K ARRIRAW, we had some digital workstations that were embedded with us and then couriers would go back and forth between us and Atlanta where Pinewood’s base is. Practically I would hand the mags to our data manager and she would download to our on-set Codex vault for an additional backup and then copies sent to Pinewood Atlanta. I think it was their first project from Atlanta.” Dane is right; Three Billboards was Pinewood Atlanta’s first movie dailies project. This is Pinewood’s hub for servicing the TV, episodic and film market in north America. The state of Georgia itself may sound like a strange place to base production until you

had set the LUTs with the intent of using them for the whole project but by experimenting and with the help of Pinewood in Atlanta we got a look that didn’t change that much to what we got eventually on screen.” Dane also had some lens management issues to work through with the classic C-series Panavision anamorphic lenses. “This glass is from the 60s; so it’s an old soft look and there is some level of management of flares and the look and what Ben would want. They brought me on to manage all of those dynamics so Ben could shoot it; he was also operating one of the cameras.” CODEX AND PINEWOOD Dane is very experience with the Codex recording system and has been using it since 2010. “I started using it with Paul Cameron ASC and now use it about

ABOVE On-set and close to the Billboards. The film's data route was managed by Pinewood Atlanta and their mobile digital lab.

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