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‘Ghost Boy’ Director on Why He Wanted to Tell Martin Pistorius’ Story: It Was About ‘Human Connection’
'Ghost Boy' director Rodney Ascher discusses telling Martin Pistorius' story about human connection.
They felt the same way: Pistorius’ story about a 12-year-old South African boy who emerges from a vegetative state with no memories, unable to move or speak, but all too aware of his surroundings, needed to be told. I wanted to hear him tell his story, and then I watched his TED talk, and what was so amazing about that to me was the setup he speaks through – the text-to-speech software – so that he had the speech loaded up and he pressed play. George selected a camera system that had a large sensor which gave us a critical shallow depth of field that emulates medium and larger format photography, which allows the eyes to be super sharp and in focus.
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