
"1917" Director Sam Mendes & Cinematographer Roger Deakins
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The Language of Obio
We didn't want to pan back and forth between two people in a conversation, which really is a sort of poor man's cut. And equally, you can also feel the operator if it's constantly handheld. So, all these things emerged organically as a part of a discussion with Roger in very early prep. And then we started storyboarding it. Often, we would storyboard sequences four, five, six times.
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