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Interview with PoA Cinematographer Michael Seresin -
Summary:
The New Zealand Herald has interviewed a native film-maker whose latest piece of work was PoA.
Article: Interview with PoA Cinematographer Michael Seresin The New Zealand Herald has a new interview with
Michael Seresin, the cinematographer for the Prisoner of Azkaban film. In the article he talks about the new look he and director Alfonso Cuaron brought to the Harry Potter films:
Please note that there is some strong language used in the interview. Read the full article at your own discretion. Quote:
He's recognised as among the best in his craft after a near 40-year career and a long list of credits, a few of which were elevated from mediocrity by his eye.
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Months before, a director mate in Los Angeles called him to recommend that he see Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien. The same mate told him a few months later that Cuaron had the Potter gig, which confounded him like it did the rest of the industry.*
A few days later Seresin arrived at his London home to find a hand-delivered envelope from producer David Hayman asking if he'd like to see a script.*
He called, the script arrived "and I phoned them up three hours later and said, 'Yeah, sure'.*
"So Alfonso came to my house and we sat down with a glass of wine and talked.*
"Over the next couple of weeks Alfonso and I got to know one another a bit better and he said 'Do you want to do it?' and I said 'Yeah, I've got bugger all to do so why not? Have a bit of fun, earning Warner Brothers' money'."*
That bit of fun turned into a 18-month commitment - last week Seresin was in Los Angeles helping the transfer of the film to the upcoming DVD.*
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Even they couldn't do much about the weather during the month spent on location in the Scottish highlands.*
"It was incredible.*
"The powers that be had worked out we would go there in May because it is the one month it never rains and there are no midges. So we arrived there and it's a sunny day and the next day it chucks it down with rain so we go into a little set we built. But it continued with the rain for the next 28 to 29 days.*
"Though it was appropriate to the drama - bright, sunny weather would have been a nightmare.*
"Maybe we went a bit darker than a normal film of this type which we thought was appropriate and it raised a lot of comments.*
"But what you see in the shadows takes you a bit longer but when you do, it's often a bit more interesting than everything being bright."*
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"If it was easy it would be boring. It's nice to have a challenge; that's what kept us going. In the end we did get fed up with just the sheer drudgery of it and ultimately it's a mechanical process and there is only so many times you can be turned on by stuff.*
"Ultimately, the best thing that came out is we did a creditable job of what in essence is a franchise now and I think it has a more cinematic feel to the previous films - which is appropriate to the story."*
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