‘White Noise’ Cinematographer Lol Crawley On Expanding Noah Baumbach’s Cinematic Methods & Creating “Optical Illusions” For The Film’s Sequences — Camerimage
deadline.comWriter-director Noah Baumbach’s latest film White Noise is his most ambitious project yet, with a production budget reportedly north of $100 million and a wacky plot featuring elaborate car chases and a fully staged train crash.
The film is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s cult novel of the same name. In the simplest terms, the film follows a family across three wildly different but intersecting stories about contemporary American life following the outbreak of a catastrophic “airborne toxic event.” Some of Baumbach’s acting favorites return, including Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.
There is also lots of his trademark whimsical cross-talk among characters. But the film’s cinematographer, Lol Crawley, told Deadline that the key to executing the family drama was Baumbach embracing a new, larger methodology. “I discovered early on that Noah doesn’t really like a second camera.
But we just had to embrace that to accomplish the more ambitious scenes,” Crawley told Deadline following a raucous screening of the film at the Camerimage film festival in Torun, Poland. “Also, Steadicam.
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