Christian Sebaldt, ASC

Christian Sebaldt, ASC
Christian Sebaldt, ASC
CSI
"Family Affair" -- Nick (George Eads, left) welcomes back Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox, second left) along with Catherine (Marg Helgenberger, second right) and Ray (Laurence Fishburne, right) on the tenth season premiere of CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, Thursday, September 24 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
CSI
"Family Affair" -- Catherine (Marg Helgenberger, left) talks with Ray (Laurence Fishburne, right), about the case of a young actress tragically killed in a suspicious car accident, on the tenth season premiere of CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, Thursday, September 24 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation • “Family Affair” • CBS

Christian Sebaldt, ASC was born and raised in Germany, where he was a trainee at Bavaria Studios from 1976 through 1978. He spent time in every department, including visual effects and the film lab. One of the highlights was an opportunity to work with Michael Ballhaus, ASC on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s classic film Lili Marleen in 1980. Sebaldt has subsequently compiled some 30 narrative film credits such as FeardotCom, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, The Dark, The Move, Bratz, and Parasomnia, in addition to an array of music videos, commercials, documentaries and television films. Sebaldt also earned an ASC Outstanding Achievement Award nomination for the “Family Affair” episode of CSI earlier this year.

“Family Affair” kicked off the 10th season of CSI. The team investigates the suspicious death of a young actress who was killed when another car rammed into her vehicle at a traffic light. The evidence suggests it was no accident but rather murder.

“(Director) Ken Fink and I agreed to do something that might not have ever been done on an episodic television program before. We filmed a two-minute, moving freeze-frame shot. All the characters seem frozen in time with some of them flying through windows. Actors were suspended from the ceiling on wires while we filmed with the motion control camera on a special rig. One of the challenges was lighting to make it look and feel realistic. We travelled through the morgue, down a hallway into the basement and up through the ceiling onto the first floor. Then, we went outside the building and finished the shot with the camera on a Technocrane. We put those elements together at a visual effects facility, and tweaked the look during postproduction.”— Christian Sebaldt, ASC

Palette
KODAK VISION3 500T Color Negative Film

2010 EMMY nominations for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A ONE HOUR SERIES

OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS FOR A SERIES