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The Batman's Cinematography

The Batman is one of the best cinematically filmed movies I've seen in recent times. It changed so much of my perspective on how a superhero comic-book movie can be shot. How it doesn't all have to be VFX. Matt Reeves and Greig Fraser made it look as so real, as Matt Reeves keeps saying, he wanted it to be visceral.

1. What i mainly noticed was, The Batman was majorly POV.

We were the characters. We were really there, walking behind Gordon while entering the mayor's house. Not just that but the brilliant car sequence scene. It was more like we were in the middle of it all, experiencing it all, when they chose to place the lens where they did. Matt and Greig intended on doing this. Matt said in a recent interview how Greig made silicon filters, which when exposed to water also got wet, basically how our POV would be if stood in the rain.

2. They used anamorphic lens.

There were several close up shots in the movie, hence they needed a wider view. Anamorphic lenses provide a wider ratio and they distort the edges of the frame. So this distortion of the edges brings center sharpness and thus bringing all our attention to the center. These anamorphic lenses bring out involuntary beautiful lateral flares too. But my favourite characteristic of the these lenses are the 'Bokeh' they produce, which is the out of the focus area in the background. They are far more soft and are ovul in shape, in difference to the circular shape in spherical lenses. As you might notice in the GIF I've attached to this post.

3. I love the sodium vapour.

The orange-yellow of the sodium vapour, the red, cyan and neons really brings out the qaulity of Gotham along with it's own gothic darkness. The contrast created by Greig Fraser is fucking magnificent. Gives Gotham it's own quality, considering it isn't a real city. Truly, the world building of Gotham as this dark gothic isolated crime inducing city makes Gotham a character in itself. There's something about it, you can feel even in the daylight scenes, the darkness to it. Also I love how they made Batman's night vision red.

4. Se7en and The Batman

Besides the storyline, which seems majorly inspired by Se7en, two detectives running around the city solving the clues and murder cases, trying to find the psychopathic serier murderer. It is the rain. Everything was wet. Kudos to the set design. I feel like Matt tried capturing the same aesthetic as Se7en, with the rain, dark gothic environment, close up shots of the clues, and again the sodium vapour.

5. Colour Grading

So something very technical here. A lot of the scenes were digitally developed negatively, and then a process called IP - Interpositive was done to it. In IP, a positive image is developed from a edited camera negative, which gives a orange-based motion picture, and makes it low-contrast which helps to preserve the shadow details. Considering it's DC, and most of the film was shot at night in dark settings, and in shadows, this process was very helpful. And the colours that form again out of the negative images, are distinct and provide a more inmersive visual experience. I really appreciate how they tried no to over-saturate the orange, red and cyan, and desaturate the shadows.

All in all, the anamorphic lenses, colour-grading, aesthetics, camera angles and framing, all these elements worked and matched with each other to give us such a unique film experience. For once, giving gotham its own features and aesthetic, than inspiring gotham from any other city we already know of.

I hope the cinematography of The Batman can change and inspire cinema for years to come and especially comic-book movies, because in the process of making a comic book superhero movie, filmmakers forget it's just another story they wanna tell, and end of the day it's all cinema.

#greig fraser #cinematography #cinematographer #the batman #matt reeves #film #cinema #batman 2022 #the batman 2022 #dc #dc comics #cinema art

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Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and director of photography Greig Fraser behind the scenes on set of Dune (2021)

#greig fraser #cinematography #cinematographer #timothée chalamet #rebecca ferguson #dune #denis villeneuve #frank herbert's dune #frank herbert

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#the batman #matt reeves #greig fraser #cinematography #batman #robert pattinson #dc #dc comics #dc films

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The End of the Movie Star, by The Critical Drinker.

Is this the end of the celebrity worship and cult of personality?

#the critical drinker #hollywood #celebrities #movie stars #celebrity worship #cult of personality #hollyweird #oscars 2022 #oscars #academy awards #youtube #social media #the end of the movie star #the academy awards #ampas #academy of motion picture arts and sciences #golden globes #hfpa #hollywood foreign press association #three ring circus #sideshow of freaks

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ELDEN RING (9/?) ↬ Leyndell, Royal Capital

#elden ring #leyndell #fromsoftware

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"Don't put these people on a pedestal, they don't deserve it."

Jocko Willink and Echo Chatles discuss weird Hollywood people slapping each other.

#best evaluation of this whole shitshow I've seen so far #jocko willink #echo charles #will smith #chris rock #oscars #r.i.p. academy awards #oscars drama #jada pinkett smith #comedians #lmao #what a shitshow #g.i. jane 2 #let the memes flow #jocko podcast #hollywood #youtube #the academy awards #academy awards

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#never change fromsoft players #elden ring #fromsoftware #memes #lmao #games

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this is barely recognisable as the original meme anymore. i just drew them standing there……. oh well.

#elden ring #blaidd the half wolf #tarnished #fromsoftware

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#lmao #elden ring #erdtree burial watchdog #stormfoot catacomb #fromsoftware #hidetaka miyazaki #wtf man #lol #memes #soulsborne

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It's so funny to me how everyone talks about the souls games about how hard and punishing and dark they are but whenever someone asks me about them I'm like I like starting a new file and seeing all the other people starting too and running with me and waving and everyone leaving messages like "don't give up!" And "behold! Friend!" And seeing someone leave a message by a cliff saying "secret ahead!" And it's surrounded by bloodstains

Like idk I know it's not really a co-op game and the souls games always have that air of loneliness and solitude to them but also there's that glow of camaraderie and the briefest reminder you aren't alone and that despite everything people will still see a turtle and feel compelled to leave a comment that says "dog"

#elden ring #fromsoftware #soulsborne #dark souls #bloodborne #sekiro #demon's souls

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Stevie Nicks at the airport in Amsterdam, after a concert on Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours Tour,” April 1977.

#check the book #lol #stevie nicks #fleetwood mac #dune #dune book #frank herbert #amsterdam #netherlands #nederland #north holland #noord holland #touring #rumours #rumours tour #1977

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I found myself lost in a twilight forest.

The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

#зеркало #андрей тарковский #the mirror #andrei tarkovsky #film #cinema

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“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”

— Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto), Chapterhouse: Dune

#dune #frank herbert #chapterhouse: dune #missionaria protectiva #bene gesserit #power #sociopath #sociopathy #government #politics #corruption #scifi #literature #frank herbert's dune

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ELDEN RING: BLAIDD

“Darriwil… Rotting in a cell is no true justice. No, this is where it ends for you.”

#blaidd the half wolf #blaidd #elden ring spoilers #elden ring #soulsborne #fromsoftware

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Bloodborne fan art by TripDancer

#bloodborne #hidetaka miyazaki #fromsoftware #tripdancer #bloodborne fanart #ebrietas daughter of the cosmos #ebrietas #micolash #micolash host of the nightmare #one reborn #eileen the crow #chime maiden #brador church assassin #vicar amelia #laurence the first vicar #djura #retired hunter djura #fan art #fanart

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underwater , a whole world exists . living underneath stones and rubble , never knowing it was the deepest place to be .

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L’appel..

#black narcissus #michael powell #emeric pressburger #the archers: powell & pressburger #rumer godden #jack cardiff #film #cinema #powell and pressburger #the archers