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Top: Dixon (Ben
Vereen)
befriends
George at a
shelter. Middle:
George tries to
reconnect with
his daughter,
Maggie (Jena
Malone).
Bottom:
Bukowski and
Moverman plan
the camera
angle for a
scene.

Oren's question was, 'How do we make
static frames kinetic?' In New York City,
if a man stands still in the street, there
will be lots of movement around him
because the city is constantly active. So
we decided to generally put him in the
mid-ground of the shot, so we'd have
foreground and background movement.
Then the question was, 'How do we
increase that?' That's when the idea of
reflections came about. We realized that
by putting up pieces of glass, we would
have another layer of movement,
because we could turn that glass at a
reflective angle to the camera and reflect
whatever we wanted. Sometimes it was
flares, sometimes it was traffic or people
moving around. It's kind of an incamera superimposition greatly inspired
by Saul Leiter, the New York School
photographer who did his work in the
1940s and 1950s, primarily shooting
through glass.
In scouting, we were looking for
locations that could provide movement
- like corner locations, as in the scene
where Richard and Ben Vereen are
sitting in a café, talking. With a corner
angle, we could shoot through glass, see
the characters in the mid-ground, and
see movement out the window in the
background. We were always looking for
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