UK-based engineering company JFD, a part of James Fisher and Sons, has been awarded a contract by Spansh shipbuilder Navantia to conduct a ship survey and suitability assessment of the Spanish Navy’s new submarine rescue mothership (BAM-IS).
Gravity.
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As with all Oscar categories, a certain showiness will probably always win the day in Best Cinematography. But voters might at least consider different
types of showiness especially in a year without an obvious one-long-take behemoth to distract everyone with its invisible edits.
Straight Up, an underseen romantic comedy from early in 2020, has no shortage of attention-grabbing compositions and camera movements. It’s shot in the old, squarish Academy ratio of 1.33:1. It places its characters within the frame carefully, often favoring symmetrical, Wes Andersonian images and lots of headspace. It occasionally uses split-screens and split-diopter shots. For that matter, it has some some extended takes, too, though they’re executed with fixed shots and pans, rather than wild floating-camera mobility.