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Arrival/First Contact in the Shell

Scene dossier / 2016

First Contact in the Shell

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Technical

Scene Equipment

lens setA-CamCarl Zeiss Zeiss Master Anamorphic/Zeiss Master Anamorphic 35mm T1.9a_cam_lens
camera bodyA-CamARRI ARRI ALEXA family/ARRI ALEXA Minia_cam

Bradford Young kept the visual palette deliberately desaturated and haze-heavy to suggest the thin line between the present and past. The interior of the shell was a practical set lit only from the glowing floor.