https://staging2.theplaylist.net/watch-video-essay-explores-the-rhythm-of-chaos-in-mad-max-fury-road-20151021/ Fri, 13 May 2016 12:34:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/watch-video-essay-explores-the-rhythm-of-chaos-in-mad-max-fury-road-20151021/#comment-79064 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:34:29 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/watch-video-essay-explores-the-rhythm-of-chaos-in-mad-max-fury-road-111068/#comment-79064 A big part of that rhythm has to do with the composition of the shots. Here\’s cinematographer John Seale on George Miller\’s deceptively simple strategy (and as you look at the clips in this video it\’s startlingly apparent: "George has an amazing idea of how the film should look. Technically, he asked us to center frame at all times. Whatever the point of interest was in every shot, whether a close-up or a wide shot, that had to be in the center of frame, so that as he cut it — and it\’s cut very fast, as you know; I think the average length of the shots in the movie is 2.3 seconds, George told me — he didn\’t want the audience to have to search for that point of interest. The cuts would occur and your eyes didn\’t have to move from one cut to the other. I found it fascinating."

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