In his narrative feature debut, director RaMell Ross committed to POV for his adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys. He explains to The Verge the creative and technical challenges it brought.
RaMell Ross considers himself more of a visual artist than a movie director. His second film, Nickel Boys, attempts a visual artist’s feat: a feature shot entirely from the first-person point of view. Every decade, it seems, first-person camerawork reemerges in film.
They stress-tested it, as all the producers did over the course of making the film and really whittled down the script, but generally never questioned ,” Ross says, then adds: “Kind of crazy.” He’d connected with cinematographer Jomo Fray, a fan of Hale County. But even Fray, who came with his own awards and bona fides, found that the POV of Nickel Boys required him to rethink the language of film “on a quantum level.
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