"The Sandman" recently premiered on Netflix — and it has totally taken the streamer by storm. That said, all the commentary hasn't necessarily been glowing. In fact, some fans have questions, particularly about the distorted aspect ratio used in the series.
Will Baldy, Sam Heasman, and George Steel serve as the show's cinematographers, and they have brought a surrealist and heavily dream-like feel to much of the new series. In it, they morph what the audience sees on screen into stretched faces and elongated images, almost giving the show the overall feeling of Salvador Dali's famous melting clocks painting "The Persistence of Memory."
However, Netflix...
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Will Baldy, Sam Heasman, and George Steel serve as the show's cinematographers, and they have brought a surrealist and heavily dream-like feel to much of the new series. In it, they morph what the audience sees on screen into stretched faces and elongated images, almost giving the show the overall feeling of Salvador Dali's famous melting clocks painting "The Persistence of Memory."
However, Netflix...
The post Here's Why Netflix's The Sandman Looks so Stretched Out appeared first on /Film.
- 8/10/2022
- by Lex Briscuso
- Slash Film
With Neil Gaiman’s highly-anticipated “The Sandman” arriving on Netflix this week, some viewers have been swift to comment on the show’s aspect ratio looking slightly off.
“Why does everything looked so stretched upwards? Is it supposed to be dreamy and I’m just an uncultured swine or is there something wrong,” one user asked.
“Sandman” viewers first noticed the skewed images in trailers for the series, sparking some trepidation among fans of the original comic book series. The distorted images were not isolated to the trailer, remaining a mainstay in the series itself.
Some questioned whether a technical issue was the causing the distinctive visuals. However, a spokesperson for Netflix confirmed that image distortion is a deliberate creative choice on “The Sandman.”
“As you’ll note many of the environments are surreal in the series and we often say it’s quite what a dream would feel like,...
“Why does everything looked so stretched upwards? Is it supposed to be dreamy and I’m just an uncultured swine or is there something wrong,” one user asked.
“Sandman” viewers first noticed the skewed images in trailers for the series, sparking some trepidation among fans of the original comic book series. The distorted images were not isolated to the trailer, remaining a mainstay in the series itself.
Some questioned whether a technical issue was the causing the distinctive visuals. However, a spokesperson for Netflix confirmed that image distortion is a deliberate creative choice on “The Sandman.”
“As you’ll note many of the environments are surreal in the series and we often say it’s quite what a dream would feel like,...
- 8/6/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Production has wrapped in the UK on C.S. Lewis biopic The Most Reluctant Convert, directed by BAFTA-winner Norman Stone (Shadowlands).
Theater actor Max McLean stars in the indie film, which is an adaptation of his U.S. stage production of the same name.
Shot in and around Oxford, the film charts the spiritual journey of the renowned writer prior to the publication of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and before his marriage to Joy Davidman. The film reveals Lewis as an Oxford Professor in 1950 looking back to the period of his youth from 1908 to 1931 when he slowly and reluctantly changed his views from atheism to Christianity.
Nicholas Ralph (All Creatures Great and Small) plays the younger Lewis and newcomer Eddie Ray Martin plays the childhood Lewis. Tom Glenister plays Lewis’s friend and fellow Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien, while there are also supporting parts for David Shields and Owen Barfield.
Theater actor Max McLean stars in the indie film, which is an adaptation of his U.S. stage production of the same name.
Shot in and around Oxford, the film charts the spiritual journey of the renowned writer prior to the publication of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and before his marriage to Joy Davidman. The film reveals Lewis as an Oxford Professor in 1950 looking back to the period of his youth from 1908 to 1931 when he slowly and reluctantly changed his views from atheism to Christianity.
Nicholas Ralph (All Creatures Great and Small) plays the younger Lewis and newcomer Eddie Ray Martin plays the childhood Lewis. Tom Glenister plays Lewis’s friend and fellow Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien, while there are also supporting parts for David Shields and Owen Barfield.
- 12/9/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman and Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Billed as an “Lgbt hipster ghost story,” Ruined is a YouTube-first comedy web series that follows the residents (both living and dead) of a hospital-turned-apartment building in Hackney, East London.
Creator Lily Smith tells Tubefilter she made the series to “address my dual anxieties about the rise of neo-Nazism, and not being cool enough to live in Hackney.”
Six episodes have been released so far, with each episode running under 10 minutes. Ruined is for fans of clever, self-aware horror films like Patchwork and The Babysitter, with a good ol’ dose of British wit. It’s also apparent the series has an excellent production team, which includes Smith and co-director Sam Heasman.
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Creator Lily Smith tells Tubefilter she made the series to “address my dual anxieties about the rise of neo-Nazism, and not being cool enough to live in Hackney.”
Six episodes have been released so far, with each episode running under 10 minutes. Ruined is for fans of clever, self-aware horror films like Patchwork and The Babysitter, with a good ol’ dose of British wit. It’s also apparent the series has an excellent production team, which includes Smith and co-director Sam Heasman.
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- 8/31/2018
- by James Loke Hale
- Tubefilter.com
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