Great acting from everyone and a great script - howbeit never letting the facts getting in the way of the truth! But......
Up to now, this series of The Crown has been a triumph of direction and an example of the very finest visual quality. If you listen to DP Adriano Goldman talking at great length about how he worked with the director and production designer you realise how beautifully crafted the look and feel of the production so far has been. Goldman talks of the "adult" pace, of using one camera to photograph each scene without any unnecessary camera movement, and making scenes last for as long as it takes. Each scene like a painting in which the characters andplot develop. The result is a thing of beauty to see. Sadly Goldman hints that for the later episodes that he is not responsible for, starting with this one, the pace will be quickening and becoming more "modern" to use that ghastly euphamism.
And, here is the first episode that shows this, and what a dog's dinner it is compared to the previous ones. It looks more like a soap opera directed by someone just out of film school, with lots of fast, unnecessary and crass reaction shots and unnecessaty camera movement. It's all about moving along at pace almost as though the Director was scared that people would loose interest or fall asleep. But, perhaps to be more charitable, the big-wiggs at Netflix forced this on her.
I always knew it would be too good to last.
Now onto the subject matter and how it was treated. There were far too many shots of far too many people with learning difficulties - it just went on and on. I have no idea how some of these people could have agreed of their free will to be in the production. To feature so many of them so much was simply ghoulish in the extreme - it should have been much more subtle, concentrating more on the small number of people in the group that were important to the story. But this is probably the first sentance you have ever read in which the words Subtle and Netflix appeared.
With the same DP and Director in future episodes I fear we have lost something very special in this otherwise fabulous series.
Up to now, this series of The Crown has been a triumph of direction and an example of the very finest visual quality. If you listen to DP Adriano Goldman talking at great length about how he worked with the director and production designer you realise how beautifully crafted the look and feel of the production so far has been. Goldman talks of the "adult" pace, of using one camera to photograph each scene without any unnecessary camera movement, and making scenes last for as long as it takes. Each scene like a painting in which the characters andplot develop. The result is a thing of beauty to see. Sadly Goldman hints that for the later episodes that he is not responsible for, starting with this one, the pace will be quickening and becoming more "modern" to use that ghastly euphamism.
And, here is the first episode that shows this, and what a dog's dinner it is compared to the previous ones. It looks more like a soap opera directed by someone just out of film school, with lots of fast, unnecessary and crass reaction shots and unnecessaty camera movement. It's all about moving along at pace almost as though the Director was scared that people would loose interest or fall asleep. But, perhaps to be more charitable, the big-wiggs at Netflix forced this on her.
I always knew it would be too good to last.
Now onto the subject matter and how it was treated. There were far too many shots of far too many people with learning difficulties - it just went on and on. I have no idea how some of these people could have agreed of their free will to be in the production. To feature so many of them so much was simply ghoulish in the extreme - it should have been much more subtle, concentrating more on the small number of people in the group that were important to the story. But this is probably the first sentance you have ever read in which the words Subtle and Netflix appeared.
With the same DP and Director in future episodes I fear we have lost something very special in this otherwise fabulous series.