Thursday 14 November 2013

6 Filmmaking Tips from Roger Deakins



6 Filmmaking Tips from Roger Deakins

There's a moment about halfway through Denis Villeneuve's sprawling, occasionally brilliant yet sharply uneven film Prisonersthat finds Jake Gyllenhaal's Detective Loki do something that we've seen so many detectives do in movies before: in a bout of frustration, he swipes his arms across his cubicle desk, violently sending his evidence and other materials into a labyrinthine clutter. But this fit of anger ends up leading to a serendipitous discovery – the chaotic new arrangement of papers on the floor reveals for the detective a clue that had been hiding under his nose in plain sight the whole time.

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