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'The Last of Us' Director Craig Mazin

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The Color of the World in Chernobyl

In reality we don't spend much time in the dark. We use a lot of techniques and I rely on our cinematographers to help, but they all understand the point. It's trickier when you're doing night scenes because you don't want to end up bathing everything in that fake blue moonlight,. You also want to be able to see things. So we have interesting challenges and we try it as best we can to think about where we're going in the end. The most important thing for me is seeing what a person is thinking or feeling and if I can't see the reaction then I'm losing what mattersMost people subscribe to some kind of graphic or directorial fiat that

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