How the WandaVision team got the right look in terms of cinematography

Marvel Studios' much-anticipated superhero series "WandaVision" premiered on streaming platform Disney Plus Hotstar Premium on January 15, 2021. WandaVision t only channels classic sitcoms, but it also aspired to capture specific eras throughout series. It aimed for a fresh approach to each episode when it came to cinematography. Here's how director of photography Jess Hall got right look in terms of cinematography, lighting and making aestic choices.

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WandaVision Cinematography

Director of photography Jess Hall, ASC said, " approach was to study and absorb references of each period, to distil ir technical and aestic choices and n to selectively apply and to filter se within our own stylistic sensibility. objective is to create ims that were in a sense truly post-modern, t simply a hom to past. This is what complex narrative of ‘WandaVision’ demanded."

Jess Hall utilised 47 different lenses to create seven different periods—many customs modified to render specific period characteristics. He said for  1950s, he tested lenses of actual period and n modified modern lenses to selectively render characteristics that he liked. For him, it was never a case of simply copying what h been done before.

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In terms of lighting, Jess Hall utilised a carefully crafted lighting style, as well as lighting instruments that were period-appropriate. He said that it meant delving deep into archives of several studio equipment houses to source equipment that has become almost obsolete. According to Jess Hall, 1950-1970s episodes were shot with period tungsten lighting. LED lighting doesn't make an appearance until later episodes that are situated in 2000s.

Jess Hall also studied and incorporated specific composition and camera movement to convey various periods, opting specific camera approaches to episodes, depending on what period’s sitcoms tended to utilise. He said that he would like to think that WandaVision has a unique quality and that in a certain sense its look is original. Jess Hall believes WandaVision is a visual synsis that has transcended cut and mix.

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WandaVision Plot

Wanda and Vision are just starting ir married life toger in a new town, and y're meeting ir neighbours. Vision's starting to work at his new job while Wanda navigates life at home. y are concerned about hiding ir powers from ir new friends and neighbours. That's when we start to realise that things are t quite what y seem.

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