American Cinematographer - January 2021 - 58
A FORWARD FOCUS
Continuing to Captivate
By Terry McCarthy
" Cinema is an art form that fully engages the
viewer, and that won't change, " says Armando Salas, ASC. " If a film or television series
manages the alchemy of combining disparate
crafts in just the right way, the viewer, regardless of background, can be transported and
transformed. "
Salas, who was nominated for a 2020 Emmy
Award for his camerawork on the Netflix series Ozark, says that the moving image has an
exceptional ability as an art form to command
protracted attention: " Successful cinema wholly captivates its audience and supersedes the
passage of time. "
Salas adds that technology will continue to
have an impact on the evolution of cinematography, as it has throughout the history of the
medium. " Technology expands our toolsets
for capturing images and curating how they
appear through the lens. " One of the effects of
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" The question is simply: 'Did the audience
new technology, he notes, has been to lift the
production quality of episodic series so that connect with this scene?' " That, he says, will
they are now beginning to rival the look of continue to be the goal of filmmakers in the
bigger feature films. " Although episodic pro- future.
ductions may move at three or four times the
pace of features, the image quality is becoming
comparable. Look at the cinematography of The
Queen's Gambit or Mindhunter - or The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which M. David Mullen, ASC
won an Emmy for. "
" New technologies allow for more options.
On Ozark, for example, by using LED walls we
photographed many pages of driving scenes in
a day without the distraction of camera cars and " If a film or television series
police lockups. This allowed for a higher level manages the alchemy of
of sophistication: I could focus on fine-tuning
the lensing and lighting on a sound stage, while combining disparate crafts in
the actors could get in the zone. The goal is to just the right way, the viewer,
limit how practical considerations can hinder regardless of background,
the essence of the art form. And, of course, if
we do our jobs well, the audience has no clue can be transported and
how it happens " - which is the point, he says. transformed. "
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