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Podcast: Cinematography Podcast - Cam Noir
Episode: Color, light and menace: DP Kim Ji-yong, Squid Game season 2
Description: As a huge fan of the original Squid Game, cinematographer Kim Ji-yong jumped at the opportunity to shape the visual language for the show's second and third seasons. Ji-yong has masterfully evolved the show's aesthetic, continuing to play with jarring camera perspectives. He uses disorienting low angles looking up and god-like high angles looking down to immerse the viewer in the drama. For him, color and light are the key to unlocking the show's central theme: the tension between childlike innocence and deadly menace.
Squid Game Season 2 follows the first season's winner, Seong Gi-hun, as he seeks...