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The life of Chiron is delicately revealed by cinematographer James Laxton who portrays him within a distinct pallet of blown out color photographs that set his life in a faded part of Miami...
Apr 20, 2021 · A collage of interviews from writer/director Barry Jenkins and Cinematographer James Laxton, discussing the visuals of Moonlight.
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- Technicolour Dreaming
- Testing The Limits of Contrast
- Creating The Color Grade
- Emulating Three Different Film Stocks
To capture Miami, Laxton knew he’d want the actors’ skin to have a big shine, so the audience could feel the sun beating down on them. Building off this, he decided he would really push the contrast ratio in virtually every scene, using a single source lighting scheme with no fill light, so the light would fall off into shadows and sculpt the chara...
Early during preproduction Jenkins and Laxton shared photos with Bickel as a way of expressing what they were looking for from the quality of light they wanted. “Then starting with the test footage, I could see the lighting ratio and design they are implementing, and my job is to design grades that can achieve the emotional impact they are after,” ...
Working with color scientist Bill Feightner, Bickel has been able to develop LUTs [mathematical formulas that modify images] so that the color in a movie responds similarly to how it would if shot on a specific film stock. For “Moonlight,” which is told in three distinct chapters, the decision was made that each chapter would emulate a different fi...
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The cinematographer of Moonlight, James Laxton, breaks down four of the film’s most mesmerizing scenes.
Jun 11, 2019 · In this video from TIFF Originals, director of photography James Laxton takes viewers through a single scene in the movie, specifically the moment where adult Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) reunites with Kevin (André Holland). Laxton explains the choices made to convey the scene's tone and shares some behind-the-scenes details.
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Interview with James Laxton, Moonlight’s cinematographer. One of the founding myths in the history of cinema (and it is likely a myth) centers on the screening of a 50-second, black-and-white silent film made by the Lumière Brothers showing the arrival of a train at a station.
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Sep 28, 2021 · Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton focused on drawing the audience into the inner lives of the characters and creating a consistent visual language to tell a story of fractured identity. For their singular vision for storytelling, Moonlight famously won Best Picture at the 89 th Academy Awards.
