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ONTHEROADAGAIN
BEHIND THE SCENES OF SAM MENDES’ LATEST FILM, AWAY WE GO, HIS FIRST COLLABORATION WITH AWARD-WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER ELLEN KURAS ASC
“THE DP IS THE CENTRE OF THE CREW, AND THE DP’S PERSONALITY IS THE OVERRIDING ATMOSPHERE-SETTER ALONG WITH
THE DIRECTOR’S.”
THE DP VIEW
ELLEN KURAS ASC
It’s almost like this story
takes place as a series of “postcards. The characters are within the postcard, and we’re seeing the backgrounds change as they question and explore where they want to go and who they want to be. This is a comedy, but it’s one about the human condition.”
At the beginning, Sam and I talked about shaping the vision of the movie and what was appropriate for the story. The Production Designer and I had to come up with many ideas about creating the varied and different looks for the different places.
I used particular lenses to keep the flatness of the postcard- feel image, although we were shooting widescreen. Flattening the image enables me to marry the characters into the background a little more.
Away We Go was originated”on 35mm Fujicolor Reala 500D 8592
and ETERNA Vivid 160T 8
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