◗ Raging Waters southeast part of the country, and then we spent some time in the north. The only thing that kept us from shooting everywhere in Iceland was that we had a company of 300 people to move around. The Watchers' land is a combination of lava fields of different ages. We traveled to the north to shoot plates on young, scorched land, and then we shot our night-exterior scenes with principal talent in the older lava fields of the south. We did our one night exterior in Iceland, the scene in which Noah and his family are captured by the Watchers and put in a pit. Our pit was about 40 feet deep on one rock face and 20 feet deep on the other. We had a couple of 18Ks on Condors for separation, but we lit the scene predominantly with daylight-balanced Lumapanels [28 4foot T8 fluorescent globes]. They were the only lights I could see working because I didn't want to use a lot of hard backlight; I just needed some soft definition for the actors. Methuselah's mountain and cave were also natural locations. In the film, Top: Noah makes preparations inside his ark. Bottom: Libatique in the ark set. 40 April 2014 American Cinematographer