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‘Wicked’ Cinematographer Alice Brooks On The Interplay Of Light And Darkness In New Featurette
Cinematographer Alice Brooks discusses the use of color, light and darkness in new 'Wicked' featurette.
In the cinematic retelling of the Broadway show, Brooks knew that a large focus was going to be on the relationship between Elphaba and Glinda, so creating the color coordination for the characters was essential to tell the story. “I started reading the L. Frank Baum The Wizard of Oz books, and every single paragraph has this very vivid color description that was so inspiring,” she says in a separate interview with Deadline. “The blue of the Ozdust Ballroom was something we found when we started doing lighting tests and put Cynthia with her green makeup against the wall.
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