[出走地平線：綠色掣]
Flattening The Curve : The green button
知道哪個是「開機」掣便好了，其他技術問題我處理不來。
我的助手會做妥所有技術工夫，他們知道我偏好哪類型攝影機和哪種鏡頭。我甚至連那些器材怎麼叫都不知道，只假裝自己清楚它們有甚麼功用。
佈置場景時，我告訴燈光師：「我們需要一道強光從那邊射進來，我想看得到隔壁房間的動靜，感受到房後面暗藏危險。」然後他（有時候是她）會處理實際工作：將一盞六千瓦的燈裝在燈架上、放到房間一角，再用3313號紫紅色濾色片給屋裏的柔和光線添上顏色。
我常說，當一切就緒，可以開拍，我只需向助手說：「好，現在告訴我哪裹是（攝影機的）綠色（「按下」）掣，然後把菲林捲進底片罐。」
最近有位朋友指正我。首先，現在所有攝影機都是數碼機，再沒有菲林可以捲入罐了。再者她說我不但技術盲，還是色盲：「老杜，仔細看看，你攝影機上的關機掣是紅色，不是綠色的﹗」
Just show me the ‘on’ button. I can’t deal with the technical stuff.
My assistants do all the technical work. They know the camera types and the lenses I prefer. I have no idea what they are called, though I pretend to know what they can do.
When we are setting up a scene I tell my gaffer, “We need a strong light to come from over there and I want to be able to see into the next room, to feel there’s something dangerous back there.” Then he (sometimes she) gets down to the practical job of putting a 6 kilowatt lamp on a stand in a corner and colouring the soft light in the back room with a number 3313 magenta gel.
I often claim that once everything is set up and we’re ready to shoot, all I then say to my camera assistant is, “Now show me where (the camera’s) green (REC) button is, and then we can put some film in the can.”
Recently a friend pointed out that first of all, our cameras are all digital now so there is no film to put in the can. And that I am not just not technical, I am blind. “Take a closer look,” she said. “The on button — the button on your camera that makes it work — is red, not green !
攝於拍攝電影《藍色骨頭》（2013）
Photo was taken in shooting “Blue Sky Bones”(2013)
#攝影 #菲林攝影 #數碼攝影
#cinematography #filmcamera #digitalcamera
