Jordan Peele’s Nope is a spectacle of horror filmmaking, all shot in large format. I just saw Nope. It was phenomenal. Love it or hate it, you have to admit that every frame of the movie took advantage of Hoyte van Hoytema and his larger-than-life composition. But what cameras were used to shoot this movie and why? And what can creatives learn? A Larger-Than-Life Frame If you know the name but don’t know why, Hoyte van Hoytema is the go-to director of photography for movies shot on IMAX and 65mm. The Dutch-Swedish cinematographer is behind Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, and the upcoming Oppenheimer. And he brought his bag of tricks to Nope. In that bag was a whole lot of Kodak film and, of course, an IMAX camera. According to IndieWire, about 47 minutes of the final cut was all shot on IMAX, the rest being a mix of 65mm film on a Panavision Panaflex System 65 Studio and some digital 65mm, which we’ll get to later. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 27 July, 2022