Top: Annie Lee Cooper (Oprah Winfrey) struggles with police during a demonstration. Middle: Young shoots a tense confrontation. Bottom: President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) meets with Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo). Young: Ava and I are concerned with nuance. Just as she's interested in the small bits and pieces of characters' lives, I feel a lifetime commitment to my community, to capturing the nuance of who we are. I'm not interested in broad strokes. Just in our day-to-day existence, society puts a lot of broad strokes on us anyway: This is who black people are. It's very easy to marginalize us if you generalize us. But if we can dig deep into the macro level, it gives us a greater depth of humanity. That's where our paths connect. What are the most common mistakes when filming black skin? Young: I don't think it's about a technical deficit; it's an emotional deficit. It's consciousness that's missing in the equation. The way the story is being told trickles down to the way people are being photographed. If you don't know or care about the people in front of the camera, I don't expect you to be very meticulous about how you capture them on film. You've previously spoken about underexposure as being key. Young: It is. We cinematographers are trained that black is a deficit, that it eats light. But black skin has a very particular level of reflectance and specularity, so here it's actually the www.theasc.com February 2015 45http://www.theasc.com