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The cinematographer, Jack N. Green, was an Academy award nominee for this work. He is also the cinematographer for "Serenity".

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I'm going to preface this response with the obvious and honest, "I adored Firefly like no other television program I've ever viewed." Having said that for the record, I was less than ecstatic about the photography, especially the outdoors shots.

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Good cinematography should be seen and not noticed, IMO. It should never cause the viewer to ponder the picture itself. (NB: The same may be said of CGI, *sneeze*George Lucas*sniffle*)

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Woo-hoo! Go Astros!

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My problem -- which I think will be noticeably remedied in "Serenity" -- is with the outdoors shots. Mal's horseback chase of Burgess. When Zoe is shot in 'Serenity, Part 2', the camera angle is so low and sidelong that I could detect the harness and mat as she falls. The hillfolk taking River and Simon through the woods to their settlement.

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I'm going to preface this response with the obvious and honest, "I adored Firefly like no other television program I've ever viewed." Having said that for the record, I was less than ecstatic about the photography, especially the outdoors shots. To me, they had a tendency to look like a bunch of people running around on a lot, through a canyon, through a thicket, etc. To my eye, the people and the scenery were separated in a way that subtracted from the desired illusion.

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I understand your meaning Zoid. There was a noticeable difference in exterior and interior shots, with the exterior shots lacking in the quality of the interior ones. I agree that scenery should blend w/ the characters to add to the overall viewing experience, not detract from it.

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One might surmise that this was a budgetary issue, given the added expense of shooting on location and the constraints under which they labored to get the show shot briskly, and not cut into the eminently well-spent FX budget. I say this mainly because of the brilliant job which D. Boyd did on HBO's "Deadwood." There, the exteriors were just excruciatingly good, blending natural beauty with the overall coarse, brutal quality of the show, while managing to convey the (often claustrophobic) intimacy of the caracters' plight, even as the foreboding immensity of the untrammelled Frontier stretched to all sides (hmmm..."Take me out to the Brown, I don't need your stinkin' town..." Nevermind..). Just lovely.

I'd feel perfectly comfortable mentioning Boyd's work in "Deadwood" in the same breath as Greeen's in "Unforgiven." Indeed, the affinities between these styles gives me (even more) great hope for the shininess which will be "Serenity."

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I completely agree w/ your comparison of Boyd & Green in their talent and artistry. I have been very impressed w/ the cinematography in "Deadwood". Both exterior & interior shots are worthy of a big budget movie, flawlessly blending the people, backgrounds, and sets into a seamless tapestry that tells the story.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."