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‘Wicked’, ‘Emilia Perez’ & ‘Joker: Folie A Deux’ Cinematographers On Capturing Musical Magic

Cinematographers Alice Brooks, Paul Guilhaume and Lawrence Sher on capturing musical magic for 'Wicked', 'Emilia Perez' and 'Joker: Folie A Deux'.

But the beauty of a well-choreographed ensemble number, or the power of a stunning duet don’t mean so much if the lighting is poor or the lensing isn’t up to snuff. “We had everything controllable by a console and we could get as many cues as we wanted, and when you are doing daylight in the studio, which is the hardest thing to achieve, you can just turn off the sun or switch off the sky on a specific line,” he says. Although the cinematography doesn’t change for musical numbers where the singing is an extension of dialogue taking place in the real world, fantasies are a different story.

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