The Cinematography Podcast Episode 361: Richard Rutkowski, ASC Cinematographer Richard Rutkowski, ASC has spent decades lensing visually distinctive shows such as The Americans, Jack Ryan, and Masters of the Air. His latest project, AMC+’s The Audacity, presented a different kind of challenge: a sharp, character-driven drama about billionaire tech culture. Shot almost entirely in Vancouver, the show needed to feel unmistakably like Palo Alto. “We worked really hard to get Vancouver out of the frame,” Rutkowski says. The solution was part location strategy, part lighting philosophy. Stages were lit to suggest bright California sun outside and darker interiors within. A
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 361: Richard Rutkowski, ASC Cinematographer Richard Rutkowski, ASC
The Cinematography Podcast Bonus Episode: Peter Deming Peter Deming, ASC discusses his early career, shooting Evil Dead 2 with director Sam Raimi, and working with director David Lynch on Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Twin Peaks: The Return. Deming’s first feature was Hollywood Shuffle with director Robert Townsend, which took months to make as Townsend had to keep raising money for the film. Evil Dead 2 also took several weeks to make as Sam Raimi was extremely ambitious in how he wanted it to look. Deming and Raimi both came from making homemade Super 8 films. “We both had the
The Cinematography Podcast Bonus Episode: Peter Deming Peter Deming, ASC discusses his
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 360: Darran Tiernan, ISC and Peter Deming, ASC The live-action Amazon Prime/MGM series Spider Noir starring Nicolas Cage is built around the trenchcoated, black-and-white 1930s New York incarnation of Spider-Man. He was first seen in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and is based on a Marvel comic book character. Cinematographers Darren Tiernan, ISC and Peter Deming, ASC were presented with a special creative challenge with Spider Noir. How do you shoot a modern streaming series that looks, feels, and breathes like a classic film noir and make it appeal to contemporary audiences? The answer involved dusting off
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 360: Darran Tiernan, ISC and Peter Deming, ASC
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 359: James Laxton, ASC Academy Award nominated cinematographer James Laxton, ASC enjoyed season one of the Netflix series Beef as a fan. He felt a kinship with the filmmaking, crafted by creator Lee Sung Jin and DP Larkin Seiple. Writer-director Lee loved Laxton’s cinematography in Moonlight, and approached him to shoot Beef season 2. “Within the first 10 minutes of the discussion, it really felt like there was a filmmaking collaboration happening,” Laxton recalls. “It felt like he saw the show in a very similar way and had similar goals about what we thought season two
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 359: James Laxton, ASC Academy Award nominated cinematographer
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 358: Krzysztof Trojnar Something Very Bad is Going to Happen is Netflix’s slow-burn horror series about a woman whose family wedding spirals into something deeply sinister. DP Krzysztof Trojnar and director Weronika Tofilska had previously worked together on the series Baby Reindeer. The two knew the cinematography would be a key piece in creating the feeling of dread throughout the series. They wanted the visual language to deteriorate in lockstep with Rachel’s (Camila Morrone) world. From composed shots, it moves to Steadicam then to a gimbal, introducing a subtle instability as the show progresses. By episode
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 358: Krzysztof Trojnar Something Very Bad is Going
The Cinematography Podcast Episode 357: Lawrence Sher, ASC When Lawrence Sher, ASC took the job shooting Apex, he knew it was going to be both creatively and physically challenging. “The first time I landed in Australia where we shot the movie, we went on a scout in which I knew I wasn’t in good shape,” Sher admitted. “I’m like, how do I survive this movie, let alone bring cameras into these environments?” The new Netflix movie is a survival thriller starring Charlize Theron as Sasha, a skilled climber who is hunted by a killer (Taron Egerton) through the Australian mountains.
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