Dune: Part Two’s Bold Cinematography

Let’s take a closer look at the cinematography and show how Dune achieved such bold, ambitious, epic visual storytelling.

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0:00 Introduction
0:45 Visual Approach
1:54 Cameras & Formats
3:29 Lenses
4:34 Focal lengths
5:10 Grounded Photography
7:12 Squarespace
8:20 Black & White Infrared
10:50 Colour Palette
11:29 Lighting
12:41 Film Out
13:53 Conclusion

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[maxjohnson]

Power over Cinematography is Power over all

[michalsvojanovsky]

Skill of that cinematographers is totally unbelievable. Thx for video.

[mollywoodshots]

Dune Part 2 has the most insane colour palette & shots I have ever seen in a single movie. The only movie where cinematographer rules over every other department & still makes the movie great✨

[sophwhy]

So cool, Dune never ceases to amaze me. Is there any possibility of a video on the cinematography of Dev Patel's Monkey Man? <3

[eruannster]

My only critique of Dune Part 2 is that we will never get to see the expanded IMAX view at home which is a goddamn shame. Even Disney release their movies in an expanded format for Disney+ and I think this would really benefit from that. Expanding to the middleground IMAX option which would use most of a 16:9 screen would be fantastic. It doesn't make sense to release 2:39:1 for home streaming anyway, everyone has a 16:9 TV anyway. Super confusing.
I would be fine if it was just for the 4K blu-ray or something, like Nolan did with Oppenheimer.

[LycanVisuals]

Greig Fraser doesn't miss.
Denis Villanueve doesn't miss.
The whole team did splendid. Saw it twice in Dolby and once in IMAX.

[flyingfox]

The photo of the 80s Moviecams used in the video around 4.05 is actually an image of a set of three lenses that I own, the 28mm, 40mm and 85mm, all on Mitchell BNCR mount.

The entire range of Moviecams are just rehoused Olympus Om Zuikos.

[markdeuce]

Stage 32 brought me here with Richard "RB" Botto. Great Video!

[aschobert]

Super interesting, thanks for the technical info about one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.

[JohnnyFehr]

Nice to see some shots with assets i have worked on featured in this video :D

[authenticNL]

I found the cinematography in Part Two to be without a doubt beautiful in many shots, but was more "Hollywood" in approach, especially the sandworms attacking the Sardaukar. It missed a lot of what I liked in Dune Part One with the ships, scale, and to some degree, the explosions found when the Harkonnen's attacked Arrakeen.

Also somehow, Dune Part Two has less 1.43 footage than Dune Part One which is odd.

[Yakov]

Moving from one lens package to another lens package from the first film to the second film, that too both were shot one after another. That's interesting.

[theowlfromduolingo]

I'm always wondering how you shoot a big movie in a desert. Isn't it impossible to keep out all sand? Not only the cameras, lenses, monitors, cables, cases and so on...

[QueMusiQ]

13:51 as to this film step: is there no digital means to emulate this well enough? For the longest time, this level of convincing analog emulation was the final frontier in audio processing, and when I started recording, rhey said this would never happen. Then it did in the prosumer arena via UA Studer 880 and Slate Digital’s vtm. There were others, but none as good as these at the price point. UNTIL then, digital music production often had a similar process of “bouncing to tape” or “running it through the board”. However, nowadays, such would herald an expense that no client is asking for or willing to pay, and the target audience is none the wiser. Everything is almost entirely ITB.

Have we not seen parity in the visual media?

[Zedokh]

Mich würde mal interessieren, mit welcher Begründung die Sensoren der klassischen Broadcast Camcorder immer noch so klein sind. Das einzige Argument was ich bis jetzt mitbekommen habe ist die dazugehörige Lindenauswahl alter Mounts die bis heute genutzt werden.

[kg]

Greg Frazier is the man! Beautiful films

[soumil]

I loved how Dune 2 looks but imo dune 1 looks just better for the world with the anamorphics

[_asandashundu]

I wanna join a film crew and advance in the field

[ForlornCreature]

I heard it was really bold because they used large format to create more compression :)
(please take down your crop factor video that has misinformation)

[LaurianeG.]

It is a bit limiting to say that your visual language should be grounded tho. Many of the most innovative films in history such as the german expressionism takes a surreal, hyperreal approach to film making which *enhances* the fantastical and creates a form of verisimilitude which makes it easier to accept what is on screen because it truly feels like a whole different world. What tethers it to our reality is the human elements - the characters, their motivation, their relationship, etc. Don't get me wrong I adore dune but acting like this is the only way to do an immersive film is just plain wrong. I mean otherwise animation wouldn't be such a popular medium.