Verity: Jim Frohna and the extreme close-up
Cinematographer Jim Frohna joined Kingdom of Dreams to discuss shooting Verity, starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett. The conversation keeps returning to extreme close-ups, unusual angles, and compositions that make the audience sit closer than is comfortable.
An extreme close-up is not automatically more intimate. Used without a reason, it is just magnification. Used with intention, it turns a face into geography and makes every micro-expression a plot point.
Frohna talks through how those frames were designed, and why the camera's distance is part of how the story withholds or confesses information.
Go deeper on Kingdom of Dreams
- → EP 334: Jim Frohna on shooting Verity
- → EP 275: Dan Laustsen on Frankenstein
- → EP 285: Alicia Robbins on Bridgerton
Browse more cinematography conversations in the Kingdom of Dreams archive.
Original Kingdom of Dreams craft take based on our conversation with cinematographer Jim Frohna (EP 334).