Editing City of Angels (film) (section)

===Filming===
[[File:BofA.jpg|150px|thumb|The [[Bank of America Plaza (Los Angeles)|Los Angeles Bank of America]] was used for the falling scene.]]
Cage said that with this role, he had to switch from his regular methods of constant movements to trying to be "effective" while often still.<ref name="Mooney">{{cite news |first=Joshua |last=Mooney |title=City of Angels |newspaper=The Hour |date=April 10, 1998 |location=[[Norwalk, Connecticut]] |page=C1}}</ref> He remarked on having to adopt the mindset of a child, and act impressed by commonplace experiences such as feeling rain or sunlight.{{sfn|Malone|2010|p=162}} A rig for the camera was built for the scene where the angelic Seth sees Maggie look in the mirror, and the crew shot the mirror without the actors for one take so Cage's reflection could be edited out from the take with both.<ref name="Nelson"/>

Other special effects involved a "going to the light" [[afterlife]] depiction, in which Seth walks with a little girl, played by Sarah Dampf, who has died. After cinematographer [[John Seale]] shot the scene in a hallway, [[Sony Pictures Imageworks]]' [[John Nelson (visual effects artist)|John Nelson]] increased the brightness to end in white, adding splinters of light.<ref name="Nelson">{{cite AV media|last=Nelson |first=John |title=The Making of the Visual Effects for City of Angels |publisher=Sony Pictures Imageworks |date=1998 |medium=DVD }}</ref>

Some of the film was shot at [[Lake Tahoe]]'s surrounding areas and [[Kern County]].{{sfn|Medved|Akiyama|2007|p=334}} The "falling" scene was partially shot at the [[Bank of America Plaza (Los Angeles)|Los Angeles Bank of America]], while Cage was placed on a moving rig over a [[Chroma key|bluescreen]].<ref name="Nelson"/> Ryan's death scene was filmed on Old Mill Road in [[Crestline, California]].{{sfn|Medved|Akiyama|2007|p=334}} The library scenes were shot at [[San Francisco Public Library]].{{sfn|Marcus|2015|p=206}} For angel scenes shot at [[Malibu Beach]], though the characters are not physical beings, it was decided that the angels would have briefly visible footprints to avoid the perception that the sand was too hard to leave imprints. Thus, Nelson erased the footprints soon after they are first seen.<ref name="Nelson"/>
[[File:Malibu Beach - panoramio (2).jpg|250px|thumb|Scenes were shot at [[Malibu Beach]].]]