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Variety’s Inside the Frame: ‘Winning Time’ DP Breaks Down Shooting the LA Lakers Season Montage in 16mm on Rollerblades


'Winning Time's' secret weapon to capturing the emotional playoffs was using the rollerblade camera.

“How do you show them moving through multiple teams it across a season while also feeling like they’re looking directly at each other?” He and director Salli Richardson had conversations about how the scenes needed to look. So the idea was to film him like our big Western bad guy, but at the same time emotionally connect with him.” With that, he chose low-angle, wide Western-style push-ins on him. That combination served as his hero base, and beyond that he mixed formats from 16mm in color and black and white, and even 8mm “to make it feel even more archival.

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