'Nickel Boys' | Anatomy of a scene

My name is Ramell Ross. I’m a co-author and director of “Nickel Boys”. “Young man! Young man. Do-Do you know a student named Elwood Curtis? ”Hattie, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, visits her grandson Elwood, played by Ethan Herisse, at the Nickel Academy, where he is wrongly sent. She meets Turner, the friend of Elwood, and Turner is played by Brandon Wilson, and Turner is the camera while the film is made from perspective; Our cameraman in this case, Sam Ellison, acts as the eyes of gymnast and give them the opportunity to participate in Turner's reality by seeing him next to him, so to speak. And when she hugs gymnast what she does because she says that she cannot hug Elwood, she essentially comes into close contact with Sam, and Sam makes a camera movement that would be imitated as much as possible and Where the eyes would go, depending on it, to be near. And with this process, Hattie like Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is unable to establish this intimate connection that arises when you have a scene partner. “What's your name?” “Here is Turner, Ma'am.” “Oh, gymnast. Well, I'm glad that I can depend on someone here, Turner. When was the last time your loved ones visited you? “” Oh, um, well. “” You know? I came all the best way. And I can't hug ellwood, so I believe you could have to do it. And and It is interesting for Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, which has a lot experience to be included on this process, by which he has to look directly on the lens and act. . You will keep in mind that next time. Aunjanue converts this a lot. can “thank you.”

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