light can be psychology

"When I was an AC, a gaffer told me, ‘Don’t run on a set,’ because you show everyone that you probably forgot something. I still don’t run on set, and I try not to forget too many things."
Bruno Delbonnel  AFC ASC 

Cinematographer (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  & Inside Llewyn Davis)

Movies have power.

The power to take us to far far places, back in time or very near inside ourselves and our every day life. One of the most important aspects of filmmaking is cinematography. The way every frame is composed and orchestrated. It helps the story to get across. Not a single element is random. There is nothing left to chance. Whenever you see a movie for the second time, take a look around the frame of a film. Not at the center where the director wants you to look the first time you watch a film. Get a glimpse of the sides, the colors, the shapes…what does the light say?

Light is not only an entrance or exit (as Spielberg tells us in all his movies and J.J. Abrahams often does his flares) Light sets moods and makes a room full or empty. Light is contemplation and psychology. 

This three films were made by the same cinematographer. 

'You can't learn how to be inspired, that has to come from yourself.' BRUNO DELBONNEL

Amélie is a classic movie. It is classic not because it has beautiful colors. Not because it is in French. Not because it is filmed in Paris. Not because it has awesome performances. Or a narrative so delicious you can almost smell the croissants. Not because the Perfect lightning . Or the wonderful world of imaginative concepts it takes us in. It marks a before and after in all cinema, because it needs no translation. It needs no closed caption for the hearing impared. Its Images are unique. It is a perfect blend of story and color.IT´S INNOCENCE.

Harry Potter and The Half BloodPrince. Potter´s adventures never appealed to me. The books seem enormous and the movies even longer. But J.K. Rowling´s fantasy caught a different kind of color palette in “The Half BloodPrince”. Making it the one that stands out the most of all 8 films. If you can watch it again see how much loneliness each and every frame transpires to you . As the series has become closer to Voldemort´s and Harry´s final conflict the mood of this movie series has changed. From the childrens RATED G to a PG-13 involving deaths. It gets darker.The cinematography is a character on its own. It is simply astounding. IT´S MAGICAL.

The third Movie is called Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen

Brothers. I haven´t seen it. I don’t like to talk about movies I haven’t seen but in this case i will just say I want to see it because of the images the trailer has shown me, the cinematography inside it. The soft blur in every frame takes us back in time as if it was a memory.  IT´S MYSTERY.

'It's always about what I can do with the script. If I think I can do nothing with the Cinematography I will not do it.' 

BRUNO DELBONNEL