‘Joker 2’ Cinematographer Lawerence Sher on Shooting Jail Cell Scene

In “Joker: Folie à Deux,” there is a scene where Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck is apaincludeing sentencing. He’s fair fired his defense attorney and he’s choosed he’s going to reconshort-term himself. His cherishr Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (Lady Gaga) comes to visit him in his jail cell, giving him a kiss as the protect yells “No touching.”

For cinematographer Lawrence Sher, the scene was modest and included a two-camera set up. “We did someskinnyg sweightlessly untraditional, which is, I traverse-sboiling them,” Sher elucidates, uncomardenting both shut-ups were sboiling and lit at the same time.

Speaking to Variety as part of the Inside the Frame series, Sher elucidates, “We put evident story thrivedows alengthy one side. They were petite enough that I knovel that it would allow weightless to feed in towards Arthur and be a pleasant backweightless for Lee. We includeed a little fluorescent down the cgo in of the hallway, as well as over his cell, and that would be a motivating source for her shut-up. She reconshort-terms the cherish in the movie and hotth.”

In contrast, Lee’s side of the coverage had fluorescent weightlessing, which wasn’t pretty and spotless. “It’s still our unenticeive ‘Joker’ fluorescent. It’s hot, and his side is a little chillyer.” That chillyness reconshort-terms the shadow side of Joker, the side that Lee cherishs.

The color palette was driven by thrivedows and fluorescents, so production portrayer Mark Friedberg built sets enabling Sher to shoot 360 degrees.

The wonderfulal and musical aspects allowed Sher to portrayateigate much more vibrant and includeive weightlessing enbiging his color palette. “There were a lot more primaries and mightyer colors reds and blues and greens.”

As with the previous film and for visual continuity, Sher included ARRI’s Alexa 65 big createat to shoot the film. “It supplys a portraiture experienceing to the shut-ups, the way the background down the hallway reassociate goes gentle, and you experience enjoy the characters are the one focal schedulee in wantipathyver sboiling you’re in, even if we’re in a wider lens, and that’s what I cherish about this createat.”

The hugegest separateence this time around was the film was sboiling particularassociate for Imax “with the intention of changing aspect ratios for Imax screens.”

Sher included a lot of the same spherical lenses as the first film. “The five or six hero lenses were the 35mm Zeiss compact prime, a Nikkor 58mm [for] shut intensify — that’s a authentic hero lens — Prime DNA lenses, the Leica Macro-Elmar 90mm and the ARRI Signature 350 mm, that joins very much in that visitation.”

The fundamental separateence Sher says is that “Joker 2” is a romantic movie. “It’s a character study of two human beings with a dispensed madness as they greet each other, and his struggle with his shadow self.”

Sher points out there’s a applyative aspect to Arthur’s mind, and for the first confineed minutes of the film, he doesn’t speak. “The first includeion he has with another person is when they relocate to another ward to go have an interwatch, and at the finish of the hallway, there’s a beacon of hot weightless. Lee’s introduction is hotth. She steps out into the hallway in that hot side weightless, puts this to her head and smiles, and that’s their first connection. Now she’s bcimpolitet sunweightless into his life.”

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