Consideration of set design, location scouting
Choreographing the lighting and narrative. via storyboards and diagrams.
implementation
post production
Gregory Crewdson
Aesthetic isnt good enough. the beauty of the image needs to be undercut by some sort of dangerous undertones.
60 man team to set up one shot, just like a film set.
Has his own director of photography.
All his shots of the same frame are collaged together in Photoshop. Never one image that is used as the final image.
Cinematic lighting really shifted the tone of his images. Telling the story through light and colour.
Spends days searching for the perfect nondescript locations for his shots.
His father was a psychoanalyst who he often used to attempt to listen into his conversations with clients.
Influenced by Walker Evans.
controlling aesthetic.
Location:
petrol station, out in the vastness of an american interstate. Great big, lit up sign.
Isolated
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Potential Directorial Ideas
- Car, in forest car park. The lights are on and the doors are left open, like it has been abandoned.
- Bus stop. Isolated, with one person standing waiting for a bus that seems like it will never come.
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