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For Cameron Crowe’s film, Vanilla Sky,
Lee Rose was called in by cinematographer and Academy Award® winner
John Toll, ASC and his gaffer Randy Woodside to help create the rave
club scene. Working with Woodside, pre-rig Gaffer Chris Napolitano,
Key Grip Herb Ault, and pre-rig Key Grip Gee Dhamarata, they
converted "The Brewery", an old powerhouse in downtown Los Angeles,
into a rave club.
Providing the lighting equipment for the production was Light &
Sound Design / Fourth Phase (now PRG) with John Lobel and Mark
Coleman acting as contacts. The rig consisted of over 500' of truss
containing more than 100 Par-64 fixtures, High End System's
Cyberlights, Cyberlight Turbos, Technobeams and AF-1000 strobes.
Light & Sound Design / Fourth Phase's custom 1000 watt police
beacons were built into special mirrored boxes for additional "dance
scene" effects. Additional support, as always, was from John
Wiseman. Using the Whole Hog 2 lighting controller, the production
was programmed by David "Gurn" Kaniski and operated by Julian De La
Pena.
Vanilla Sky was a remake of the 1997 Spanish thriller "Abre los
Ojos" or "Open Your Eyes", and starred, in addition to Cruise,
Penelope Cruz, Kurt Russell, Cameron Diaz and Jason Lee. |
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