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Gorka Gomez Andreu ha ganado el premio ASC Spotlight!
Enhorabuena a Gorka porque es muy muy bueno!
Enhorabuena a Gorka porque es muy muy bueno!
Nominaciones a los BAFTA
Cinematography - BAFTA Awards: 'La La Land' Leads Nominations
Bradford Young - Arrival
Giles Nuttgens - Hell or High Water
Linus Sandgren - La La Land
Greig Fraser - Lion
Seamus McGarvey - Nocturnal Animals
Aquí tienes un trocito de la entrevista en el American:
"The Sins of a Serial Killer" by Williams, David E - American Cinematographer, Vol. 76, Issue 10, October 1995 | Online Research Library: Questia
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1995 / 10 October Issue of American Cinematographer
O bien puedes echarle un vistazo al libro: "New Cinematographers" de Alex Ballinger donde Darius comenta las técnicas usadas en Seven, entre otras.
Por alguna razón no me deja pegar el enlace de Amazon pero lo encuentras en un segundo.
Seguro que en cualquier biblioteca digna lo tendrán.
Un saludo.
¿Qué quieres saber en concreto? Aquí escribí alguna cosilla sobre esta fotografía. Y tengo el American.
Buena reseña, muchas gracias Harmónica. No especifiqué, pero me interesa sobre todo saber cómo había reforzado los practicals Khondji, cómo había llevado a cabo los kickers, con qué construye la luz en los planos en que los practicals no aparecen y en general lo que implica el trabajo en interiores en cuanto a aparatos de luz. Veo que mencionas algo en dicha reseña en cuanto a pantallas, aunque si dispones de información más detallada aún sería bestial.
Saludos!
Te dejo por aquí lo que dice el artículo de Octubre de 1995 de American Cinematographer al respecto. Cualquier cosa más, me comentas:
"The flashlights were normal, though a bit boosted in watt-age after we shot tests. Xenon flashlights are too obvious to me; I wanted a more natural feel than that. We also used a bit of smoke to bring out the beams, but there is very little smoke elsewhere in the film.
"Then we would use Kino Flos as a backlight - a very soft line of light - and Chinese lanterns as top light, our key light. We used that combination often, with one and a half stops to two and a half stops difference between the key and fill.
"We shot the entire film almost wide open, so most interiors would be at f2.5 while the exteriors were 2.8. That made it extremely difficult for focus-pulling, but gave a precise plane to the action, so we could direct the viewer's eye.
"For me, the Gluttony scene was about darkness," Khondji specifies. "When the detectives come into the room, it's very old and shiny - greasy. There is not supposed to be light there. So when they aim their flashlights, the light shines back to them. Turn them off, and the room would be black. The room itself was underexposed, but we would overexpose the flashlight beams to really pick them up, though they were already two to three stops over the room. To have them fill the room a bit, I put bounce cards here and there in the corners and on the floor. I tried using reflector cards, but the look was too vulgar.
"Being under or over a Tew stops is not much normally, but when you are increasing the contrast so dramatically with a special color process, it is a lot - especially when pushing the stock a stop as well."
The Lust victim is found tied to a bed in a brothel, bathed in rich red light, which amplifies the horror by filling the room with a crimson glow. In the center of the space, the naked bulb of a practical lamp acts as the only white light source. "That scene was shot almost in silhouette with the exception of some flashes from a photographer's strobe light," Khondji describes. "There is green light in part of the room, with the mixture becoming completely red at the other side, a very deep red. We decided on those colors because the scene takes place in a whorehouse and we wanted a kind of Hamburg, Germany look - a passionate, violent, almost monochromatic red, like blood. The color scheme reminded me of the Hammer Studios films I saw when I was a kid." Other horror fans might also be reminded of the primary-color nightmares of Italian directors Dario Argento and Mario Bava.
Sloth is exemplified in a particularly nasty scene in which a skeletal victim is found strapped to a bed, emaciated after long weeks of prone captivity. Khondji remembers, "This was a very necrotic, green scene, like being under the bottom of a river - with the feeling that time has passed. It had a moist, fungal look. I added a bit of green gel to all the lights, which were all daylight-balanced, just to give the feeling of angst. As in an Edvard Munch painting, you have this green spectrum, even if there is no green within it. But it was also a very eerie location, in downtown Los Angeles, which had been abandoned for years and filled with lead-based paint and very dangerous. It was perfect, with that feeling of rot.
"The practical lights in the scene were given a bit of red, but for me, a practical is usually orange with a Vi to full CTO or a very cool green. The contrast of color for me is just as important as the contrast of the light intensity. My normal fill light for ambiance is usually color-corrected to match the shadows, to keep the scene cooler."
As in all the scenes featuring victims, the Sloth sequence relied heavily on special make-up effects for an additional element of shock value. Seven was the first time Khondji had shot extensive prosthetics, leading him to trust the experts. "I got along extremely well with our special effects prosthetics artist, Rob Bottin. He was my friend on this movie and a great supporter. Rob would tell me how to light his effects and I would do it because he had a good feeling for what we were doing and such great experience with the materials he uses. When you work with great people, you should listen to them. They are artists and it should be a collaboration.
"Usually when I see creatures in the movies, they are overlit and it doesn't look right," Khondji adds. "A great creator like Rob, who produces amazing work, knows that it is much more important that the effect looks real than for it to be fully seen. That is the only thing. So for the man tied to the bed, we used a sort of contrasty, counter-lit approach I learned by watching the films of Jacques Tourneur: Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, Curse of the Demon. Those films taught me that you don't have to show and light everything - that the impression of something is far scarier. Rob's work was perfect, but the dark parts were the most important, because you have to imagine what is there."
Tying directly in with Fincher and Khondji's mindset of modernism, the crimes of Pride and Greed stand out starkly, with white surfaces and bright lighting punctuated by pools of blood much like Argento's Tenebrae. "After Gluttony and Sloth, these were totally different situations," the cinematographer says. "The room of the Pride murder was lit entirely from the windows with 20Ks and Dino lights, 24 Par lights, coming through a lot of diffusion. The concept was that there would be no shadows, with the room being just a wall of creamy soft daylight. There were windows in two directions, so there was no need for fill.
Es curioso comprobar cómo en los últimos años algunas películas han experimentado con relaciones de aspecto fuera de los habituales scope y flat. Tenemos casos como The Hateful Eight con su 2.76:1, La La Land con 2.55:1, Jurassic World y Café Society con 2:1, Tomorrowland con 2.20:1... incluso The Grand Budapest Hotel jugaba con 3 relaciones de aspecto distintas: flat, scope y sobre todo 1.37:1.
Pero aún quedan más sorpresas. Sofia Coppola ha rescatado el 1.66:1 para su nueva película, The Beguiled. Aparentemente han rodado en 35mm y el DP es Philippe Le Sourd, cuyo último trabajo importante fue The Grandmaster de Wong Kar Wai. Y encima tiene muy buena pinta.
Esto es la clave.Con respecto al 1.66:1 vs. 1.85:1 o el 2.20:1 vs. el 2.40:1, existen ciertas diferencias, pero opino que son pequeñas y que no justifican el riesgo que supone salirse del estándar.
Esto es la clave.Con respecto al 1.66:1 vs. 1.85:1 o el 2.20:1 vs. el 2.40:1, existen ciertas diferencias, pero opino que son pequeñas y que no justifican el riesgo que supone salirse del estándar.