Comparative Directorial Styles: Edlund, Rohl, Singer, Scgricca, and Manners
This originally was intended to be a small comment for spnematography’s episode discussion for “Reading is Fundamental” (7x21), but it grew into something bigger and took me too long to post in a timely manner for the discussion prompt. So, weeks months later, here it is. Whoops, deadlines.
( The meta fairy visited... )
Heh. Aptly said. I can't disagree with you. I'd love it if Edlund's directing was a quirky and sharp as his writing.
I loved Manners' directing
I'm biased. Manners is my favorite SPN director period. There are very pretty episodes directed by other directors, but Manners is, IMHO, by far the director that has consistently delivered the most visually gorgeous, lyrical episodes. I just wish we had him for more years then we did. RIP.
*looks* like a piece-by-piece composition from X-Files
The floaty camera technique, yes. I remember the X-Files episode "Home" (the freaky one with the person under the bed that was shot at the same house as SPN's "The Benders") that he directed. There was this freaky shot where the camera was floating around a dark room with holes in the wall that let pin-pricks of light in and then it zeros in on a specific section of the wall. And that's when the viewer realizes it's not a hole in the wall, it's an eye. *meep*
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