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Direction - Cinematography DOP

HANDHELD THOUGHTS

Allow us to move quickly.

give a naturalistic feel, that counteracts the period.

Allow us to work the filming around the actors, not the actors around the filming.

Think how we can cut together something that is handheld or even improvised. I don’t want to end up with lots of great moments that don’t cut together.

Think about how we could combine handheld with Tripod shots. Start with a tripod master?

SHOT IDEAS

Get a wide of a mound that we can cut back to at anytime to give a forbidding sense.

Get lots of wides outside the house.

Maybe a shot sweeping into the house from the front.

GENERAL APPROACH

Name the key shots we must get in each scene.

Dont waste time on inserts of shots we can get without the actors

Always be shooting

CINEMATOGRAPHY REFS

“The prestige” has a handheld approach that seems to ground the historical setting in an interesting way.

Do want to shoot coverage in some sense, really for safety.

CU with shallow DOF, might allow us to do street filming without worrying too much whats in the background

I love odd framings

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