In the new film Salt, American covert operative Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is accused of spying for the Russians and must draw upon all her skills to evade capture by her CIA colleagues. She is also determined to prove her innocence, something that becomes increasingly difficult to do as her flight continues. The movie features a variety of ambitious action sequences, but according to director of photography Robert Elswit, ASC, director Phillip Noyce “was not interested in spectacular scale, which runs counter to the way action films are usually done. Phil pushed [production designer] Scott Chambliss to design our sets to be small, claustrophobic and authentic-looking, and he asked me to provide a naturalistic lighting scheme.”

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