Robert Rodriguez: preference

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…Yeah. So I was really into it and I did test for the most difficult shots first. Like, how do I get his tape to glow in the dark like in the comics so it’s still in the shadow? And I realized, oh, use fluorescent tape and a fluorescent light. That way I can keep it, we can still key it. I started just doing my own visual effects like that early on because I knew technology was changing so fast that I would need to just know how to do it like a magician. Shooting digital, nobody wanted to touch digital back then. DPs were all afraid of digital. They didn’t want to have to learn something new. That’s so funny.…

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