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SPN Director Meta: Serge Ladouceur (8x12)

Feb 23, 2013 16:07

“As Time Goes By” (8x12) was Serge Ladouceur’s, SPN’s Director of Photography, first solo directing gig. I thought it was well done. Not only was it filled with pleasantly surprising choices but also showed an understanding of how to exploit the camera to tell a complimentary visual story to the scripted story, making it feel like he really ( Read more... )

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ramblin_rosie March 3 2013, 23:33:41 UTC

Very interesting analysis! Thanks for sharing! Just out of curiosity, how does that final crane shot compare with the final shot of Casablanca?

bowtrunckle March 13 2013, 17:31:30 UTC

Thanks for stopping by and leaving your thoughts. :)

how does that final crane shot compare with the final shot of Casablanca?

Do you mean technically or in the context of the story or both?

ramblin_rosie March 20 2013, 18:58:03 UTC

Both, I think.

brightly_lit March 16 2013, 05:41:28 UTC

Wonderful post, lovely observations.

The screencaps of the vertical lines are awesome. I also love what Serge did with luminous objects in foreground and background, mainly candles, but also the turquoise objects in the foreground in screencap 20 and the bright blue curtain lines in the BG in screencap 19. I'm seeing he mainly stuck to a turquoise and blue motif in the dark scenes, down to their clothes! In fact, one could probably write a whole paper on turquoise representing her and blue representing him and what it all means .... *totally not a film geek myself, plainly*

I figure the DP finally getting to direct is going to go as crazy as he wants to with the visuals, and it looks like he did! Thanks for your thoughtful analysis.