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An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" (2012), featuring cast and crew interviews, outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage.
For educational purposes only. Non-commercial purposes.

Ridley Scott used multiple cameras simultaneously since 'Gladiator'.
Dariusz Wolski, ASC details the multi-camera "mise-en-scène" on 'Prometheus': “We were using three or four cameras at any given time. First you do two wide shots, and then you shoot tighter. Then you go to close-ups with two longer lenses; they’re easier to hide, and you can still find a place for the third camera. With Ridley it’s like a puzzle: you look at the scene, put cameras all over the place, and then see which ones work. You move one a little to the right, another a little to the left, dolly one out. You roll the scene, and when one camera doesn’t work anymore, another dollies in and picks up the scene, and you get this incredible fluidity. You can do a three-page scene with three camera setups, and then you do another version and you’re done. It’s extremely efficient. Sometimes multiple viewpoints just won’t work because the lighting would be too flat, and Ridley’s the first one to understand that. But with a clever design, you can get away with a lot, and Ridley loves a challenge. It’s almost as if we’re looking at each other and saying, ‘How far can we push it?’ Of course, it becomes crazy at some point, and then we back off and agree to do the close-ups separately. But I believe you get more interesting images because of the challenge — because you have to hide the camera, because you have to drop the camera lower or higher, because your overs are not perfectly matched and because your eyelines aren’t, either. I think of Prometheus as an extremely stylized and controlled documentary.”