Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 . Linus Sandgren FSF, ASC (born December 5, 1972) is a Swedish cinematographer, known for his collaborations with directors Damien Chazelle, David O. Russell, Gus Van Sant, and the duo of Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. Two Condors with daylight-colored LEDs were used above and channeled through green-gelled softboxes. And in those discussions, we connected, and had a very similar view.” They decided that the aesthetics of the film were going to be inspired not just by the romanticism of classic Hollywood but also the techniques and classic lighting. 'La La Land' cinematographer Linus Sandgren details his approach in shooting long, continuous takes, moving between crane and steadicam. In stock. Those kind of obstacles throughout the shoot were, I think, the more tricky ones to deal with, and we had to trust our ability to get there eventually.”. Feb 23, 2017 - Song and dance Linus Sandgren FSF / La La Land Song and dance Linus Sandgren FSF / La La Land Although it was produced for a modest $30million, La La Land The director had an entire library of musicals that they looked to for inspiration, and the team chose to shoot Kodak 5219 500T and Kodak 5207 250D for daytime exteriors, filmming with the Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2 camera and classic Panavision C-Series anamorphics and Panavision E-Series lenses. If that is the goal of art, then La La Land … Previous page. Cars and trucks are stuck and snarled and everyone suddenly pulls to a stop. And you have the sodium vapor and mercury vapor streetlights, where the sodium vapor are orange and the mercury vapor are more green/blue or cyan. Linus Sandgren, en chemise blanche, sur le tournage de "La La Land" The camera as a third character “Damien Chazelle introduced the film to me as a film about the dreams that people have –and especially about achieving them,” explains Linus Sandgren. Visuals for the project are rooted in the golden-era Hollywood song-and-dance classics like An American in Paris and A Star is Born , but transformed by modern sensibilities and equipment. La La Land: Linus Sandgren On The Complexity Of The Project. Buy movie tickets in over 60 countries at http://movie-times.net. “I think what we really aimed for was to try to achieve that technicolor look in camera. 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Linus Sandgren, FSF, whose credits include American Hustle and Promised Land, earned his first Academy Award® nomination on La La Land – one of 14 Oscar® nominations for the acclaimed film. “There’s always a risk shooting greenscreen that those things are going to look fake, and we decided that even if there were going to be any visual effects, they would be glass paintings on set. He is known for his film collaborations with Damien Chazelle on La La Land and First Man and with David O. Russell on American Hustle and Joy. It was on the set of La La Land that Chazelle first told Sandgren about his next movie — the story of legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong and the events leading up to humanity’s first steps on the moon, called First Man. La La Land opens with a show-stopping number in which the stars don’t even participate. The production had four electricians just for the dimmers. A Star Is Born [Blu-ray] [2018] by Bradley Cooper Blu-ray £7.99. That was more important to us than more well-known musicals, like, Singing in the Rain, which is actually a 4:3 aspect ratio.”. He laughs that shooting film over digital was no extra challenge for him. 4.5 out of 5 stars 254. The production also worked with covered wagons, strips of lights that are diffused with silks, most often placed on the floors or hidden from beneath. Linus Sandgren is an Academy Award winning Swedish cinematographer. So we had to rehearse everything, a lot, and play it risky in the moment. This item: La La Land [Blu-ray] [2017] by Ryan Gosling Blu-ray £6.08. Even doing complicated light gags in a later movie theater sequence required grips and electricians physically creating shadows in front of the light sources. DVD. In our latest Through the Lens installment, Sandgren talks us through two very different scenes in the film. Sandgren says that he and Chazelle would collaborate on each scene with Mary Zophres, the costume designer, and David Wasco and Sandy Wasco, the production designer and set decorator, to decide what is important to each sequence, and whether or not color decisions would fall to set design, like backdrop, or to lighting and costume design. Sometimes it was quite frustrating. So we decided instead of doing, like, blue moonlight, which perhaps would have been used in an old Hollywood movie, we felt that we wanted to define Los Angeles as a mercury-vapor night rather than a sodium-vapor environment. Because of the location and its many obstacles, like the median in the middle, we had to go to a crane setup. La La Land is a 2016 American musical romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle.It stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as an aspiring actress, who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. He also chose to light very intimately, employing classic Hollywood lighting techniques like spotlights, which helped him to separate characters from the background and also acted as a visual metaphor for the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the main characters, largely actors and musicians trying to make it big in Los Angeles. Perhaps that is enough, you never know!”, March 10, 2021 - 9:31 pm by Micheal S. Johnson, Looking For Inspiration – Peter Holland – StartUp. 4.8 out of 5 stars 30. Linus Sandgren is an Academy Award winning Swedish cinematographer. He says that he always uses a lot of practicals within a scene to give a source for colors and shadowing, even if they’re not adding any useful light to a scene. We tried to hide the reality by creating an homage to romantic Hollywood movies.”, “Generally, the night exteriors, and club interiors,” he continues, “used more colorful lighting, but otherwise day exteriors, and brighter day interiors were color schemes that came from the art department. It gives me a richer negative with more color and saturation. Released this last December, the Lionsgate musical La La Land has gone on to gross more than $340 million, eleven times its original budget of $30 million. Blu-ray. "La La Land," the romantic musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as two star crossed lovers trying to make it in the dog eat dog world of … He also worked with Gus Van Sant on Promised Land where he shot the film in a unique format, Super 35mm 1.3x ... Another I have one exact beat where the stuntman is supposed to do a flip from the roof and land in the water. From Simu Liu to Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, check out these popular and up-and-coming stars who are taking Hollywood by storm. Securing not only seven Golden Globe wins, one for every single nomination that the film received, La La Land is also currently tied with Titanic for most Academy Award nominations ever, including a nod for Best Cinematography for DoP Linus Sandgren, FSF, as well as Best Actress and Best Actor for stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Linus Sandgren with the award for best cinematography for La La Land in the press room at the 89th Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in... Writer/director David O. Russell attends a Q&A and retrospective of his films at Aero Theatre on February 12, 2014 in Santa Monica, California. And Hollywood, for us, was also a very anamorphic medium, with films from the fifties like a Star is Born and wide-screening format in 2.55:1 CinemaScope. Whether you're ready for the return of your favorite show or need to catch up, May is packed with an array of returning series. La La Land: City of Stars February 27, 2017 Mark Dillon Linus Sandgren, FSF infuses Los Angeles with heightened reality and a colorful glow in writer-director Damien Chazelle’s musical throwback. “I know I will get something in camera that has captured a richer world.”, “For example,” he says, “cyans are really prominent on a film negative, while on a digital camera, you have to add a lot more color to the lighting to get those colors, if you can even get them. It looks set to be a box office sensation too. on Jan 18, 2017 Damien Chazelle, La La Land, Linus Sandgren Early in La La Land, Emma Stone’s aspiring actress rises from a restaurant conversation about the unpleasantness of contemporary moviegoing and sprints to the Rialto Theatre to take in Rebel Without a Cause with Ryan Gosling’s intractably traditionalist jazz pianist. The same with the kitchen, we used cool white colors to contrast against the gold. In stock. If you don’t have a contrasting color, you can get a little too muddy with smaller lights or practicals. There was a lot of location work on La La Land, like the Mulholland and 110 sequences, and Sandgren’s camera acted in many ways as a dancer itself, fluidly following and interjecting its own choreographed movements, often with Sandgren on Steadicam. Sandgren had also been quite impressed by Whiplash, and was very enthusiastic to work with the director. V Los Angeles, městě plném nadějí a hvězd, Sebastian náhodou potkává Miu a spolu se vydávají daleko za hranice stereotypní každodennosti – do pohádkové země splněných snů La La Landu. “Shooting so much on location,” he laughs, “we would decide on a location, and then look at it and say, ‘How can we make this look like it’s all shot on a backlot (laughs)’. Like on the pier, those gas lights don’t exist at Hermosa Beach, but we added them to get a more a timeless feel to the pier, as well as a more romantic color palette against the pink sky. “Throughout the film we used essentially green to add to daylight lights,” he says, “to shift for nighttime scenics to make the skies more pink, and to maintain that palette of cyans, and blues, and pinks.” He also thanks the film stock and camera choice for such wonderful color saturation. He wanted it to be in one single take. For the aforementioned Mulholland dance scene, for example, he had a huge truck loaded with fifteen 6K HMI units enhanced with green gels to give backlight while Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are walking up the street to the Mulholland dance number. Those kind of obstacles throughout the shoot were, I think, the more tricky ones to deal with, and we had to trust our ability to get there eventually.”, “Sometimes it was quite frustrating. Even in the subtle use of palettes, certain color tones, like shades of green, are just so rich with film, so I felt like it was a better opportunity to shoot with film. ‎EPISODE 36 - LINUS SANDGREN - Cinematographer Team Deakins sits down for a conversation with cinematographer, Linus Sandgren (NO TIME TO DIE, FIRST MAN, LA LA LAND, JOY). Already in the midst of preparations for the dance numbers with choreographer Mandy Moore, he met with the cinematographer and immediately brought him onto the project. Don't wait in line! I love to have a contrasting color. The Greatest Showman [Blu-ray] Movie Plus Sing-along [2017] (Without Cardboard Slip Cover) by Hugh Jackman Blu-ray £5.28. “The first meeting, we discussed a lot about the colors and the look of Los Angeles, being sort of a character itself,” explains Sandgren, “The romantic part of old Hollywood was a big influence for the film. 27 wins & 40 nominations. For example, she explains that “b. Blame part of this sensory overload on the work of Swedish cinematographer Linus Sandgren. Otherwise, shooting digitally, you may have to key colors and try to pull more out of them.”, For interiors, lighting differed by scene, but Sandgren tried to stay naturalistic. Blu-ray. Sandgren says he utilized a number of light systems, preferring a lot of single point sources like 6K HMI, to make the city scenes seem a little gritty with a enhanced contrast, as well as large overhead Condors for diffusely lit street scenes. Damien really wanted this film to feel like Los Angeles was quite blue, as well. Sent from and sold by Chalkys UK. V Los Angeles, meste plnom nádejí a hviezd, Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) náhodou stretne Miu a spolu sa vydajú ďaleko za hranice stereotypu všedných dní – až do rozprávkovej krajiny splnených snov menom La La Land. Talentovaného jazzového pianistu a nadějnou herečku čeká vzrušující dobrodružství, které se ani náhodou nepodobá jejich skutečným životům. La La Land. Sent from and sold by Amazon. But the crane casts shadows, so if we did that all in one long, single take, that there would have been shadowing of the dancers. “The opening number,” Sandgren continues, “is all real, but we couldn’t do it in one single take. Talentovaného jazzového pianistu a nádejnú herečku čaká vzrušujúce dobrodružstvo, ktoré sa ani náhodou nepodobá na ich skutočné životy. Linus Sandgren (born December 5, 1972) is a Swedish cinematographer. “What we took from those musicals a lot, visually, was the aesthetics of old Hollywood,” he says. I’m using a lot of practicals, but the practicals are more there to give set decoration and a little more glow to a scene, and then from there you work in a little more lighting, but I don’t like too much light. So we would add gas streetlights, or we would light to be a little more theatrical. A nadějnou herečku čeká vzrušující dobrodružství, které se ani náhodou nepodobá na ich životy! 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