The handheld, grainy visuals generate wildly visceral action sequences, an abundance of
extreme wide shots ensure you're constantly oriented, and then there's a slew of close - ups that make it absolutely impossible not to be sucked right up by the stellar performances.
Not exact matches
We should even take a moment to discuss what it's like to watch a film
shot entirely in
extreme close - up with
wide - angle lenses.
Slow West continues the Western's visual convention of
wide cinematography — it's a landscape film — and extends it with chopped
extreme close - ups during the
shoot - em - up action scenes.
But sometimes in the same scene I'm also doing the French [style], where there are
extreme close - ups, and they are all static, and there is this tension between close - ups and
wide shots.
Hooper (The King's Speech) likes distressed chic interiors and
extreme wide - angle lens master
shots, which makes every room look like a fishbowl with peeling wallpaper, and he sprinkles in an art history reference here and there (including a few direct lifts from Hammershøi) to no effect.
I often frame representational images in
extreme close - up, so that it is not at first clear to the viewer what s / he is looking at, only revealing
wider shots that show the full scene later - see Dad's Stick from 2012.
The latest teaser video released by LG shows some
extreme long
shots of a city in dark, suggesting a
wide - angle lens on the G4 along with f / 1.8 aperture.