The cinematographer of WhereTheCrawdadsSing talks about the visual approach to the film: 'We wanted from the beginning to take the viewer — grab them, take them down into the swamp and never let them go.'
The Sony Pictures film of the same name, in theaters July 15, tells the tale of Kya , a young woman raising herself in the marshes of North Carolina in the 1950s. Her journey — and her relationship to nature in particular — resonated with Morgan . Her own experiences growing up in West Sussex in the U.K., “in the middle of nowhere with the nearest house miles away,” seemed familiar.
In navigating how to capture the characteristics of the marsh world, Newman and Morgan relied on Owens’ words: “Marsh is not swamp. Marsh is a space of light where grass grows in water and water flows into the sky.” The DP also used a fluid sequence that intercuts with two young boys on bikes to show marsh life. “We wanted from the beginning to take the viewer — grab them, take them down into the swamp and never let them go,” she says.
The atmospheric bayous of Louisiana stood in for North Carolina, with the town of Houma doubling for the fictional Barkley Cove. “Weather goes hand in hand with nature,” Morgan says, “so when we first find [Kya], she’s looking at the sun while holding a feather [blown by a light breeze. We wanted to let the viewer be lost in Kya’s experience of the world, and so we used the natural world as references for different emotional beats.
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