Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt is no stranger when it comes to being at the forefront of digital moviemaking technology. David Fincher’s “Mank,” a biographical drama about “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) is without exception.
Visually, viewers are transported to Old Hollywood, where an alluring black-and-white visual palette blankets the screen, a look that ties in production techniques traditionally not used on modern movie sets.
Though the film was destined to be black and white, rather than shooting on a camera that produces color images to later convert to monochrome, the picture was recorded on a Red Ranger Helium Monochrome, an 8K digital camera that only records black and white.
“While testing, from a purely aesthetic point of view, the black-and-white camera almost looked three-dimensional where the color camera looked dull and lifeless,” says Messerschmidt, who’s been nominated for an Academy Award for the film. “We wanted...
Visually, viewers are transported to Old Hollywood, where an alluring black-and-white visual palette blankets the screen, a look that ties in production techniques traditionally not used on modern movie sets.
Though the film was destined to be black and white, rather than shooting on a camera that produces color images to later convert to monochrome, the picture was recorded on a Red Ranger Helium Monochrome, an 8K digital camera that only records black and white.
“While testing, from a purely aesthetic point of view, the black-and-white camera almost looked three-dimensional where the color camera looked dull and lifeless,” says Messerschmidt, who’s been nominated for an Academy Award for the film. “We wanted...
- 4/15/2021
- by Daron James
- Variety Film + TV
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