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The Craft Of ‘A Complete Unknown’: Creating “Authentic Folk Music Quality” With Cinematography, Editing, Production & Costume Design
Craft heads Arianna Phillips, Phedon Papamichael, Francois Audouy, Scott Morris & Andrew Buckland on paying homage to a revolutionary artist.
When making a biopic about a famous artist and musician, you would think the research would come easy… Until the aptly named A Complete Unknown, tracking the meteoric rise of Bob Dylan – the enigmatic man with an unknowable past. “In a lot of cases we have actor performance moments where there’s character building happening, but they’re not always in the exact same beat because of the way the music goes in the scene or maybe the lyric is different, so it definitely becomes more of a puzzle,” says editor Scott Morris. “We joke about how the spinning plates metaphor Sylvie (Elle Fanning) used at the end of the film kind of applies to all the characters,” says Morris, who edited the scenes taking place in 1964.
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