How Cinematographer Roger Deakins & Team Pulled off the One-Shot Masterpiece 1917
...the journey was established inside the studio, production moved to the locations to progress scenes further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hSjs2hBa94&t=8s Deakins used a Sony mirrorless alpha camera to mimic the frame of the main camera...
Best of 2019: Craig Mazin on Getting the Details Right for the Shocking Chernobyl
...the story of Chernobyl to the screen, how he went about writing the script, and what he learned from the process. Edited interview excerpts follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9APLXM9Ei8 You’ve done mostly comedies. How did...
Best of 2019: Makeup Designer Burton LeBlanc on Creating Misery in the Colonies in The Handmaid's Tale
...look on their mouths, and Tooth Stain for their teeth.” Ofglen (Alexis Bledel), shown. (Photo by: George Kraychyk/Hulu) Ofglen (Alexis Bledel), right, shown. (Photo by: George Kraychyk/Hulu) The scenes shot at the...
Best of 2019: Deconstructing Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s With his Cinematographer Robert Richardson
...that’s exactly what I had in my brain.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6lCcjv-214 Featured image: Quentin Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt on the set of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. Photo Credit: Andrew Cooper...
Best of 2019: Breaking Down Three Key Scenes With Ad Astra's Editors
...just an opportunity to witness a little moon-based derring-do; it’s also deeply symbolic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiEYJ0gTcLY “The whole film itself is steeped in the idea that the further we venture out into space, the...
Best of 2019: The Irishman Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto on Crafting Scorsese's Masterpiece
...CGI.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHXxVmeGQUc&t=1s Collaboration is inherent to cinematography, as Prieto explains, but he says on Scorsese’s sets, all creativity and new ideas offered by those present are considered, and often embraced. “In terms...
Best of 2019: How Ford v Ferrari's Production Designer Rebuilt the World's Greatest Race Track Piece-by-Piece
...helping the director get Ford v Ferrari across the finish line. Here’s how he did it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3h9Z89U9ZA Let’s start with the cars. Even for non-car people like myself, these are beautiful vehicles....
Sandler, the Safdie Brothers & Kevin Garnett Talk Uncut Gems
...pacing and genre but [Uncut Gems] was always the goal for 10 years.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTfJp2Ts9X8&t=3s Bur Sandler didn’t read the script or meet the Safdies until two years ago. “I did The Meyerowitz...
Hidden Life's Production Designer on Working in Terrence Malick's World
...one village,” but the “main scene, where they’re sitting outside the restaurant, was “an amazing village in Italy.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMorHlM43Gk&feature=emb_logo That was a key locale since it’s in the local biergarten that Jägerstätter...
How Editor Lee Smith & Sound Editor Oliver Tarney Crafted the Immersive Story of 1917
...War I who are tasked to deliver a message to save hundreds of fellow men. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZjQROMAh_s&t=2s Mendes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, conceptualized the story as one continuous shot—a language...