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How ‘Inside Out 2’ Presented Riley’s Anxiety Attack


'Inside Out 2' cinematographers Jonathan Pytko and Adam Habib discuss how they got inside Riley’s mind for the anxiety attack scene.

Lighting wise, we’re trying to approach it from a very physical sense, complete with flares and grains and trying to give a real filmic look to the human world, and we contrast that a bit with the minds also,” Pytko explained. “In the hockey rink, she’s also wearing an orange jersey and we worked with the art department to sort of figure out ways we can interject some emotional colors into Riley’s environment, just to tie the two things together,” he said. I would show the sets to the team and say, ‘Hey, look, the barrel distortion is pretty intense, and yet, the audience still laughed and they didn’t run out of the theater screaming.

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