GEAR REVIEW
unfolded. Much of the action takes place inside a police headquarters set, where around 20 actors operate within a busy environment monitoring crimes through multiple CCTV feeds. To heighten the sense of activity, I worked closely with the production designer and Revolver, the company responsible for managing the digital screens on-set. The set itself contained numerous monitors, but I also asked for additional floating panes of glass that could sit in the foreground of the frame. Two large ‘on-the-fly’ TVs allowed Revolver to feed archival material,
surveillance footage or electronic static that we could project onto the glass. By placing these panes anywhere in the frame, I was able to shoot through layers of moving imagery, creating the impression that the entire room was saturated with digital information. The NOVA II played an important role in shaping the atmosphere of the space. In a corridor deep in the background of the set, I placed the fixture fitted with the Aputure NOVA II Dome Diffuser and used its pixel-mapping capabilities to create a subtle pulsing transition between green and blue tones. The idea was
THE NOVA II PROVED AN extremely versatile FIXTURE”
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