At university, the awkward Elphaba befriends the popular Galinda and practices sorcery in the hopes of meeting her idol, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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00:00I've been attracted to light since I can remember.
00:07Light to me is everything.
00:09In Wicked, the light is actually the darkness, and the darkness is the light.
00:14All through movie one, the pink sun rises for Glinda, and the sun is always setting
00:21for Elphaba.
00:24Every lighting choice, every camera choice, lens choice, was all about how does it feel
00:30to find your best friend in the world and then be pulled apart.
00:38Every scene has a feeling that I need the audience to get.
00:42That relationship between what's in the frame and movement is such a huge part of the language.
00:47And not just movement of what's in front of the camera, it's movement of the camera itself.
00:53What I love about our anamorphic lenses was that we were able to burst out into the colorful
00:59world of Oz, be in these huge, beautiful landscapes, also making it feel completely organic.
01:07At the same time, be able to do these intimate, intimate close-ups with Glinda and Elphaba.
01:14We could be so close to them, and they could look right in the lens, and you could feel
01:18their connection.
01:21Whatever way to get there, for us to feel anything for these characters, that's where
01:24we should be going.
01:25So we had some big shots in there that really allow you to sit into the set, because it's
01:30a giant set.
01:31I've never seen a set bigger than this.
01:34Great dance numbers and beautifully orchestrated choreographed scenes where the camera just
01:41has these lyrical, huge, sweeping crane moves.
01:47I think we all were allowed to dream bigger than any of us had ever dreamed before, and
01:54we were invited to do that and asked to push our imagination to the absolute maximum.