One thing which is strongly noticeable is how characters are framed in bottom left or right corner.
It's okay to use negative space sometime but here it's done so excessively that it's very noticing and monotonous & not sure what they are trying to convey.
Anyone finding it strange or excessive too?
It's Sam Esmail's style. Definitely weird, but this is a weird show, so I don't mind.
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I like the cinematography and camera angles.
What I don't like anymore is the story. It's gotten ...
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I'm not 100% on this but I think esmail said that he wants the viewer to feel like they're standing there in the scene as well. We're in Elliot's head as well as the camera.
shareI like it. It adds tension in a way that typical framing wouldn't. It also pulls in more of the surroundings, putting you more into the room.
Ever since my first lessons on composition in the early '70s, it's been the same formula for film and stills; so for decades now, it's been what we all expect and think nothing off it: space in front of the dialog speaker.
It's also been typical to fill the frame with the subject's head, or if not filling the frame, use techniques to blur out the background/foreground so only the speaker is in focus.
Esmail pulls back, gives you much more of the room and keeps it mostly all in focus. I can understand how the tension could be distracting to some, but I appreciate the different perspectives.
I've always been delighted when I see something that makes me want to point to the screen and say "nobody's done THAT before!"
But of course the framing you mention is something he always does. I've never heard anyone complain before about him continuing to do it.
I also like how they've been playing with zoom lately (so from new to traditional framing in a single track), most notably in the scene with Price's 'most powerful man in the room' speech, but they've done it at least one other time since then.
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