Elvis Pasqual
Gaffer / Chief Lighting Technician
Film • Television • International Productions
Italy / Europe / Worldwide
· Interview: Behind the video
Selected Press & Industry
American Cinematographer — “Into the Light — Lights to Diode For”
Interview / technical discussion on LED lighting and modern set-lighting workflows.
British Cinematographer — Succession
Article discussing the Italian unit and lighting work.
International Cinema Lighting Society
2nd Unit: Prep and Execution Roundtable.
No Film School — Immaculate
Cinematographer Elisha Christian discusses location challenges and the lighting/grip solutions developed with the Italian crew.
· Few references:
Gaffers are among the first crewmembers to discover what LED lighting can and can't do, and this issue's feature gathers their perspectives on how the technology has reshaped their craft. Chris Hill, Gary Deneault, Andy Lowe, Matthew Parnell, Elvis Pasqual, and Matthias Ganster address LED ribbon, point sources like the Astera Titan Tube, "ersatz practicals," and the color-consistency and control challenges that remain.
Read the full article in the August issue.
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- American Cinematographer
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanCinematographer/posts/1540173494807543/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
“For the scenes shot in Italy, we worked with the excellent gaffer Elvis Pasqual. He lent us some large LED lights he had that Storaro helped create, called Melpomene from The Muses of Light. As they were bright, powerful, but required little power, they were perfect for sunlight effects coming through windows, and to light the courtyard at night during the bachelorette party scenes.”
- Patrick Capone (Dp):
https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/patrick-capone-and-christopher-norr-succession/
We shot on location in and around Rome, and most of the locations would not allow any rigging inside. Key grip Tommaso Mele and gaffer Elvis Pasqual were used to this, and came up with ingenious solutions in these locations.
- Elisha Christian (Dp)
https://nofilmschool.com/sxsw-2024-roundup
Despite multiple DPs and directors filming episodes, a visual consistency was found, and Jacobs gives due credit to the team behind him, Sprenger and Murphy. “It was a huge pleasure to work with some truly exceptional fellow gaffers all over the world. George Selden in New York, Elvis Pasqual in Italy and Vladimir Martínez in Mexico. Our lighting desk programmers in New York and Italy, Mike Arisohn and Abdellatif Ouarrak respectively, were also a huge asset in the look of the series. And our rigging gaffers in New York and Italy, Casey Ford and Andrea Rostellato, were incredible, not to mention our stellar New York-based key grip Brendan Lowry and his entire team.”
- Cody Jacobs (Dp)
