Cinematographer Darran Tiernan on Crafting the Black-and-White Visual Style of 'Spider-Noir'
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Sarah Shachat
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
Cinematographer Darran Tiernan discusses his work on Prime Video's "Spider-Noir," a series starring Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly (The Spider), a 1930s-style gumshoe detective. Tiernan, known for his work on "Perry Mason" and "The Penguin," explains the unique challenge of unlearning 25 years of conventional cinematography training to craft a bold black-and-white visual style that pays homage to film noir and classic detective aesthetics. The series offers both color and black-and-white versions, with Tiernan hoping audiences experience both.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledSeries cinematographer Darran Tiernan hopes you check out both versions, but the director of photography leapt into the tale of 'The Spider,' aka gumshoe Ben Reilly (Cage), for a different reason.
Tiernan knows how to photograph a tortured detective in a fedora ('Perry Mason') and how to craft the comic book atmosphere of a rotten metropolis ('The Penguin').
A cinematographer can wait their whole...
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