Collateral (2004) - ELD Lighting

Collateral is a great film concept and well executed. Michael Mann delivers a great character clash, depictions, and arch.

Great performances.
Action packed with a touch of art.

Mann made the decision to go digital instead of shooting on celluloid film.

He wanted Los Angeles to be a character almost in the film, and he wanted to explore some of the exposure options that might allow all the spectle, flash, and glow of the city to register on screen.

He also experimented a lot with ELD lighting, something that is and has been and will change the production lighting game along with LEDs.

Along with fitting in small places, aka small size, LEDs and ELDs don't produce the heat or demand the electrical power that conventional tungsten halogen or even more modern fluorescent production lights do.

Amazing technology.

The taxi in the film is a core set piece, and the decision on how to light it was huge.

Mann, chief lighting technician, Phil Walker, and cinematographers Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron used foldable, Velcro-able, ELD (Electrolumi-nescent Display) sheets and dressed the interior of the taxi with Velcro as well, allowing for a quick and flexible lighting setup and much more control.

A fun film with beautiful themes that also pushed the technology-creativity line.

Be well.
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