'We did not have a dolly or a tripod,' says Hardwicke, who shot the film on super-16 mm to give it an analogue-grainy effect when it was blown up to 35 mm.
On the other hand, Thompson felt that the grainy image effects and dense fog hid the details of the environment, while Fielder wrote that the exterior environments "rarely push the PlayStation 2's graphical capabilities".
This can be anything, really: think pink and blue fluorescent light tubes, minimal typography, grainy film effects, indoor plants, athleisure, vehicles as props, Southwestern desert imagery, maybe a wet look hairstyle.
The film extends the effect — grainy black-and-white, hand-held shake and dizzying pans.
If you want a grainy image for effect, it is very easy to add in post-production.
The plasma had only 75% as many pixels as the LCD (and bigger gaps between them), yielding a grainy screen- door effect missing on the LCD.
It also comes with built-in filters that let shooters add soft-focus or grainy black-and-white effects on the spot.
It's got a great atmosphere which is sustained by dark and grainy graphics, chilling sound effects and an incredibly improbable storyline that is treated properly as to suspend reality from creeping in and ruining your experience".
Result: grainy, intimate photographs.
Talking heads come flying at the screen in an attention-deficit barrage of cuts and visuals, put through grainy video filters and glitchy effects to achieve a tone and aesthetic that feels very much rooted in the visual language of the internet.
