BEHIND THE SHOT
FACE TO FACE Hillary Fyfe Spera (above, left) was keen to explore the visual routes she could take with the characters of Murdock and Fisk
Murdock, meanwhile, walks through a crowd of people celebrating Fisk’s victory at street level. “As he walks through the mayhem, a pulsing red light grows on his face as he’s backlit, signifying the inevitable return to his fate as Daredevil. “The duality of both these characters is what interested me so much about the visual opportunities; their humanity, haunted identities and the pasts we can’t escape from,“ Spera explains. The scenes were storyboarded in great detail and brought to life by gaffer Charlie Grubbs, key grip Matt Staples and A camera operator Tom Schnaidt. Spera believes they anchor the visual language of the whole show. “They express the identities of Kingpin and Daredevil using their signature colours, foreshadowing what’s to come in their stories,” she says. “Fisk is usually shot from below with a wide-angle lens to emphasise his stature and oppressive size, but Murdock’s world is often shot handheld, more naturalistic and at street level, with a warmer lighting palette and intentional use of red. “Both shots were well planned and executed – fairly seamlessly,” she shares. “That said, using smoke or haze is always a wild card. But when it cooperated, it helped the lighting nicely hold colour.”
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