How ‘Immaculate Room’ DP Navigated Shooting That Large White Room
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor When “The Immaculate Room” cinematographer Rasa Partin was reading the script, he saw the line “giant white room” and thought nothing of it. “Sure, it’s a giant white room,” Partin says.
As he continued to read through the pages and the story unfolded, he realized, “It is just a white room with a bed. There’s nothing else.” The premise of the film, directed and written by Mukunda Michael Dewil, is a simple one: a young couple (Kate Bosworth and Emile Hirsch) are picked to spend 50 days in “The Immaculate Room.” If they manage to stay in the room, with no outside stimulation, they will walk away with a prize fund of $5 million each.
Partin’s first hurdle was how to approach shooting in the white room. Thanks to the pandemic, shooting was delayed by nine months.
Typically, he would have worked with a production designer, but since Dewil didn’t have one, Partin decided to do his own pre-viz using Blender Studio software to conceptualize his ideas. “I used it to look at framing and lighting and how to use the alcoves.
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