Children of Men: Focus on cinematography

Post by **Dr_Strangelove** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:10 pm

I saw Children Of Men a couple of nights ago and I was overwelhemed by the cinematography. As most of you might know, the narative is set in the near future (2027) women have become infertile and most countries in the world are on the verge of collapse. The DP, Emmanuel Lubezki did an excellent job. The style he used was a bit documentury but significantly steadier which only made it more pleasing to watch. It was refreshing to see Emmanuel Lubezki break lose from conventional camera work and as far as I remember there was not one single close up featured through out the film. The film looked very natural, sugesting that a lot of it was filmed using natural light so I'm not all that suprised that it was filmed of vision2 expression 500t. There are also plenty of long scenes at are uncut and they run anywhere from 2-7 minutes and all of them looked amazing and felt very realistic.

Well these are my thoughts about the picture, please share yours!

/Jan

Post by **HeathenClerk** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:04 pm

Absolutely stunning, astonishing, magnificent film. Can't wait for the DVD to show everyone who missed it!

Erik

Post by **gilmata** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:08 am

amazing cinematography

Post by **Dr_Strangelove** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:45 pm

I've just re-read the oscar nominations and found out that children of men has been nominated for best cinematography. It certainly deserves it but I'm afraid The Prestige will take the oscar...just a hunch.

/Jan

Post by **Dr_Strangelove** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:58 pm

heres a short documentury focusing on the cinematography and technical difficulties http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A55xTYXMpI

Theres even a shot of a super 8 camera being used...

/Jan