After Joe had told me that he wanted me to be on board as the Cinematographer for his short film ‘After Arcadia’ we had a small group meeting between ourselves and Bob Brice (Art Director). Joe gave me the early stages of the script to read through and after he and Bob talked about the influences they had for the film and how they themselves imagined it would look as a final piece. Joe expressed his desire for the film to be completely shot out on the moors and Bob made it clear that the lead characters costume was going to play a huge part with the visual style of the film and much like in The Road (2009, dir John Hillcoat) the costume should fit in tonally with the photography of the film itself.
The mention of John Hillcoat’s The Road was funny because it was actually the film that was most prominent in my mind from listening to the initial idea for the short and then reading through the early stages of the script; I also really enjoyed the visual style of that film and thought that something similar would really suit this project.
At the end of the meeting I took a copy of the uncompleted script to read through a few more times and told Joe and Bob that I would look at some more films that might influence me for this project and whose visual style would have some relevance to the general outlook and feel of ‘After Arcadia’.
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