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HUNDREDS GATHER TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE LATE MAKO IWAMATSU IN CAGES!
Wed, 14 Nov 2007
A SPECIAL TRIBUTE SCREENING OF MAKO!
Tue, 16 Oct 2007
Perles Acquires Cages Distribution!
Wed, 01 Aug 2007
"CAGES" RUNS 4TH WEEK IN THEATRES!
Fri, 13 Apr 2007
IT'S MY TURN TO FLY!
Mon, 09 Apr 2007
"CAGES" SURPRISES MANY AS IT ENTERS THIRD WEEKEND IN THEATRES!
Fri, 06 Apr 2007
"CAGES" ENTERS THIRD WEEK IN THEATRES!
Tue, 03 Apr 2007
LOYAL FOLLOWING TO THANK, AS "CAGES" ENTERS THIRD WEEK IN THEATRES!
Mon, 02 Apr 2007
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Excellent picture all the time.
09/10/04
Every day we strive to make a film that is crisp in focus. Today, we spent a considerable amount of time doing just the opposite.
The story is told by a blind person. Specifically, I modelled the level of visual impairment after actor Dickson Tan, who plays JONAH in the film. He actually can see to a certain degree. He sees shapes...he sees shadows...kind of like looking through a frosted glass window, he can make out certain things if the light is just right. When light is too bright, however, it is blinding...and can even bring tears to his eye. Dickson sees no color.
It is this visual architecture that runs in the story on two occasions. As a result, we had to film all this interesting footage today but had to blow the focus out, play with shape and shadow, and pay careful attention to sound instead. It was an exciting and powerful day, as we captured the opening and the closing images. I played the grand piano in Victoria Concert Hall while Director of Photography Mark Lapwood shot images of my hands playing the piano. No, i didn't really play the piano. I just pretended, and sometimes, i hit the keys accidentally...but when we process what we captured, we will have an image of what Jonah might see.
The Cages team is doing such a great job. It was both entertaining and annoying today when Continuity and Set Decorators kept running into the shot to shine the piano free of finger prints....or adjust a minor detail in the background. I kept saying...."if Jonah can't see it, neither will the audience".
I didn't put too much pressure on the crew, because I am forever grateful they are so intuned to the details of Cages. The footage we shot may, in the end be blurry...but it will be good to know that even in this blurry state of black and white underneath it is an example of our team's determination to create an excellent picure at all time.
Graham Streeter
Director
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