skyjedi2005 said:
David Tatterstall's boring ho hum cinematography
I kinda got the photography bug this summer and barely know what an f stop is, so im definitely a rookie but it is something i look for.
its funny for a supposed 'visual filmmaker', you don't hear or read to much about david tattersalls contributions. I know he was part of the young indiana jones crew. The only anecdotes i can think of was how they setup the lights in that italian castle and the lighting of vader's surgery.
I can think of several instances where shots are not as interesting as erik tiemans and ryan church's paintings. I guess AOTC was pretty photogenic, but so much of ROTS alternated between flat or garish. everything captured on utapau sucks! :(
99% of the time when you hear about the camerawork its regarding the new digital cameras, thats it. its almost as if the DP was made irrelevant. Maybe with all that green screen, it is :(
I was concerned that 'digital cinema' was going to make cinematography obsolete because of inconvenience. Kinda how modern day houses don't have the charm of vintage houses. but almost 10 years later, there are plenty of films shot in digital that look pretty good. Michael Mann's collateral, for example. So did Superman Returns.
I know lucas had issues with gilbert taylor on ANH and i heard rumors that ROTJ had another DP that was fired (and that film i always thought looked surprisingly plain)
ESB, OTOH, must have had a great DP. dagobah was on a soundstage, but that is one cool looking swamp. He's worked on some David cronenberg movies that are cool and have an interesting look to them.