Filmmaker Barry Ackroyd reveals how his camera work takes audiences inside the command bunker and gives them no control over the final countdown to nuclear Armageddon.
Shaky camera work and crash zooms are often highly distracting. Yet, in the right hands, they can immerse the audience in the story. That’s the case with A House of Dynamite, the latest movie shot by Barry Ackroyd BSC, a pioneer of docu-drama whose work with Director Kathryn Bigelow and Filmmakers Ken Loach and Paul Greengrass has inspired legions of filmmakers. However, as he tells IBC365, you can’t just mimic the aesthetic, you have to earn it...
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