David Crow Oct 15, 2019
Oscar winner Roger Deakins talks filming war movie 1917 as one-take... and avoiding Rope's fate as "a technical exercise."
Few would ever consider how frustrating a pair of flashlights can be on a movie set. Roger Deakins prefers it that way. Still, when those flashlights have to light seven, eight, or ten-minute shots without affecting actors’ performances, their presence becomes its own kind of battle on the set of Sam Mendes’ 1917.
“There’s a scene in the trailer where they’ve got flashlights,” Deakins tells us at New York Comic Con. “Well, we spent a number of weeks getting the right beam, getting the right bulb, the right Led to go in it, and get the right batteries so the thing would last long enough for very long takes and not interfere with the performances—and it was all controlled on a remote dimmer.” Pausing long enough to offer a soft chuckle,...
Oscar winner Roger Deakins talks filming war movie 1917 as one-take... and avoiding Rope's fate as "a technical exercise."
Few would ever consider how frustrating a pair of flashlights can be on a movie set. Roger Deakins prefers it that way. Still, when those flashlights have to light seven, eight, or ten-minute shots without affecting actors’ performances, their presence becomes its own kind of battle on the set of Sam Mendes’ 1917.
“There’s a scene in the trailer where they’ve got flashlights,” Deakins tells us at New York Comic Con. “Well, we spent a number of weeks getting the right beam, getting the right bulb, the right Led to go in it, and get the right batteries so the thing would last long enough for very long takes and not interfere with the performances—and it was all controlled on a remote dimmer.” Pausing long enough to offer a soft chuckle,...
- 10/15/2019
- Den of Geek
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