Seamus McGarvey

From a design standpoint, I think everything that Greta's doing here, from a production design, costume design, it's really imaginative and it looks wild.

I do have issues with Seamus McGarvey's cinematography and the whole gray sludge, overly bright lit color saturation that looks like it's made for streaming as opposed for the theatrical experience, which is what they're selling this on.

They're selling this as a big movie event.

But nowadays, I feel like there is this push against movies that have that typical streaming look that, That's not what we are going to the theaters to see.

Denise Goff among the cast as well.

Seamus McGarvey is serving as cinematographer and the Netflix adaptation draws on Belfast-born author C.S. Lewis' novel, which explores the origins of Narnia.

Sometimes one story is the beginning of all the others.

Is Mr. Kethley really mad? Uncle Andrew? Mom always calls him a magician.

Um, really, it's about him, and it's set against the backdrop of all this behind-the-scenes footage that was found 35 years later of the making of the film Edward II back in 1990.

And the background story to that is that our line producer at the time, Sarah Swords, asked Seamus McGarvey, then a sort of, I think, 21-year-old fledgling cinematographer, if, if she got him a camera, would he just be around to, to film the background? Of course, Derek agreed to that.

So he was given a camera, and he was there for the whole of the five-week shoot, and none of us really remember now, none of us who were there at the time-

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However, characters like the cult leader, Billy Lee, calmly walk in between the line without a second thought.

Uh, to further illustrate this idea, cinematographer Seamus McGarvey used color to give each character their own photographic signature.

With this process, he assigned Billy the color red for the significance of impending doom, blood, and death, black and white to Daniel to tell his distinctions between the truth and deception, and bright colors to Darlene for her character's hopefulness and purity.

Uh, Goddard said he placed the story in 1969 due to the circumstances and tensions during the decade, while drawing inspiration on morality from the techniques used by the Coen brothers.

It's ...

Move to the next point that I've got under the direction, which is to say that, uh, the film was shot in chronological order, which I didn't know, and that's very rare, to improve continuity.

Um, cinematographer Seamus McGarvey was hired to bring out the '60s look and beautiful colors, which I've already commented on.

Uh, he used a wide aspect ratio to shine focus on the ensemble cast.

and again, leaving stuff up to your own imagination, that I feel like the film, had it focused more on that, would have been more compelling.

I mean, Seamus McGarvey, who's the DP here, the way he captures Salma is...

I think she's pretty stunning to look at, and how he films her is really alluring and... yeah so credit to that but there's just a disconnect sort of through where it feels like everything is not connected to the scene previous where i'm just like

yeah

This movie was produced by Kevin Feige, of course.

Cinematography was done by Seamus McGarvey, who did Charlotte's Web, the 2014 Godzilla, Fifty Shades of Grey, Pan, The Accountant, The Greatest Showman, Die My Love, more recently, and the upcoming Greta Gerwig Narnia movie.

So I'm very excited to see that.

Now knowing that this person also did The Avengers.