DP James Whitaker, ASC breaks down the look of HBO’s DTF St. Louis: street photographs, a brutalist style police station, and inobtrusively lighting intimacy.

Podcast highlights include:
-How street photography, not cinema, was the right reference point for shooting ordinary suburbs.
-What led to the unusual set design and lighting of one of the key locations, featuring a brutalist interior that feels right out of Eastern Europe.
-Engineering a remote-controlled lighting rig for the show’s many intimate scenes, so that the mood never had to be broken.

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DTF St. Louis is streaming on HBO Max.
Hear our previous episode with James on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die: https://www.camnoir.com/ep349/

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