The Cinematography Podcast Episode 369: Michael Bauman, ASC Fresh off of shooting One Battle After Another, cinematographer Michael Bauman, ASC began work on Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story. He and director Max Winkler built a show that had to convincingly move between the 1940s, Hitchcock-era Hollywood, 1970s grindhouse horror, and the 1980s true-crime cases Ed Gein’s story went on to influence. “One of the things that we talked about was the differences in light from Ed Gein’s world into the Hitchcock world, and the use of sun and hard light versus soft light. And so it was just trying
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 369: Michael Bauman, ASC Fresh off of shooting
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 368: Gustav Danielsson, FSF Instead of leading with grand, sweeping Game of Thrones melodrama, HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a bit more of a buddy comedy, with plenty of action and drama. At first, cinematographer Gustav Danielsson, FSF was concerned about how to hook an audience with a smaller character drama set in the Game of Thrones universe. “It starts out very slow. There’s not a lot of drama. That was a little bit of a worry for me and for the director,” Danielsson says. “How do we capture the audience in this
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 368: Gustav Danielsson, FSF Instead of leading with
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 367: Cinematographer Matt Ball Emmy-nominated cinematographer Matt Ball has returned to the show to talk about Season 2 of Tucci in Italy. Shot over roughly seven months between January and July 2024, Season 1 and 2 were filmed concurrently. Hosted by actor Stanley Tucci, Tucci in Italy takes a different approach to travel and food, primarily exploring what can be found off the beaten path, rather than the heavily touristed areas. Season 2 features Italy’s islands and edges: Sardinia, Sicily, Verona, Naples, Campania, and Le Marche, a region popular with Italians but largely unknown to American or
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 367: Cinematographer Matt Ball Emmy-nominated cinematographer Matt Ball
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 366: Eben Bolter, ASC, BSC When Eben Bolter, ASC, BSC signed on to shoot Apple TV’s new adaptation of Cape Fear, he inherited a legacy that includes both the 1962 original and Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake. Rather than avoid the comparison, Bolter embraced it, and he’s created a visually distinctive look for the series. “I always thought the ’91 movie was weird in the best possible way,” Bolter says. “It’s a really great example of expressionism. It’s the opposite of documentary filmmaking. It’s not verité. It’s not found. It’s not naturalistic. It’s big and theatrical.” That
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 366: Eben Bolter, ASC, BSC When Eben Bolter,
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 365: Lyle Vincent Cinematographer Lyle Vincent believes that visual language can carry subtext without ever calling attention to itself. As he puts it, the craft should always be in service of the story, even when it’s doing a lot of narrative heavy lifting. Vincent’s work on the Netflix limited series The Beast in Me is a continuation of his collaboration with director Antonio Campos after the HBO Max drama, The Staircase. Both are eight-episode limited series, both were shot entirely by Vincent, and both were approached less like television and more like one very long feature
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 365: Lyle Vincent Cinematographer Lyle Vincent believes that
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 364: Christian Sprenger, ASC Christian Sprenger, ASC and producer/director Hiro Murai first met right out of film school on a commercial. The two have spent the last 11 years collaborating on Atlanta, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and now Apple TV+’s breakout hit, Widow’s Bay. While working with actor Donald Glover on Atlanta, the trio decided to just make something that they thought was good, no matter what the network had to say. Sprenger says that freedom carries forward into all of their projects. “The language that we started building, and that we’ve continued building on Mr.
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 364: Christian Sprenger, ASC Christian Sprenger, ASC and