Cinematographer Jeffrey C. Mygatt on how to get a 12-hour day done in 10.
“We’re having the most fun when we write something that goes really hard. I think part of going hard is we also go hard in the feels department.”
Twisted Metal is a success story for video game adaptations, and it was all shot by cinematographer James McMillan and his “pit crew.”
“I love this project so much because it hits all the things that I love to put into scores, which is weird and zany, funky things, just fun textures and layers that’s not always melody.”
“When Ted and John pass a bong back and forth, you have to have a little bit of a handoff from a real prop to a digital one when Ted grabs it. We try to overlap that as much as we can, so that it’s seamless, but the artists do such a great job with the water simmering in the bong and the smoke.”
Some actors are just enjoyable to listen to, especially when they got juicy lines; Pierce falls into that exclusive camp.