For the fireworks lighting effect, we had Skypanel S360s on every roof down the street, all attached to a dimmer board. We used a lot of ARRI lighting products, huge numbers of ARRI Skypanel S60s and S360s.
We took pictures and looked at local photographers, and those became our references for what the movie should look like.īrooks: We shot with the Panavision DX L2 and anamorphic G series lenses that Panavision customized with us to make them feel a little bit more aged and a little bit softer.
We wanted to be inspired by Washington Heights itself, and not make a Hollywood version of what we thought it should be. We immersed ourselves in the community, ate our meals there, interacted with the residents. It was cold, we were standing in Highbridge Park pool in heavy coats. Did he want a similar approach for Washington Heights?īrooks: We arrived in New York in March, 2019. We’ve been together for two years, which is remarkable for a creative team.įilmmaker: In Crazy Rich Asians, Chu came up with a heightened, romanticized version of Singapore. It was great because all of us-Nelson Coates, the production designer Myron Kerstein, the editor and Mitchell Travers, the costume designer-went from Vancouver right into In the Heights. We were doing a television series when he asked me to shoot In the Heights.
We’ve been good friends over the years we’ve done lots of music-driven or dance-related projects together. įilmmaker: Let’s start with how you joined the project.īrooks: I met Jon when we made his short When the Kids Are Away, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003. In the Heights screened as opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival before its nationwide theatrical release this Friday. Brooks spoke with Filmmaker via Google Meets. Her next project is an adaptation of the Jonathan Larson musical tick…tick…BOOM!, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directing debut. Each song brought a different set of problems for cinematographer Alice Brooks to solve.īrooks worked with Chu when both attended USC, and shot The LXD: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers with him for Paramount. Chu, the adaptation features several large-scale production numbers with up to 600 extras. Shot largely on location in 2019, the screen version of In the Heights stars Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera and Olga Merediz. With music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, the story unfolds in Manhattan’s Washington Heights during a heatwave that results in a blackout. On Broadway, In the Heights won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, in 2008.
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