We chat with SignificantOther directors Dan Berk & Robert Olsen about their latest genre-bending work on paramountplus, writing for a Maika Monroe reunion, and more:
From the creative duo behind the acclaimed horror comedy Villains comes Significant Other. The psychological thriller revolves around Ruth and Harry, a young couple who find their backpacking trip through the Pacific Northwest taking a dark turn as they sense something is following them through the forest.
So, we wound up taking it around, which, of course, took more and more time, by the time we were shooting it, COVID was still an issue, but it wasn't as crazy as it was when we initially started writing it. As far as the genre blends in it, I think that it was a really fun exercise for us, because Villains is a bit of the genres are playing out at the same exact time the whole movie.
Same with the poster, they sent us a bunch of great options, and we gave notes and picked some cool ones. They were all really awesome, actually, we hope that they end up releasing some of the other alts, but yeah, it was a really collaborative experience, and probably one that won't be matched on our next films by other studios, I'm sure we will experience the less collaborative version, but it was great.
So, Matt had a great plan about how to attack and build around the light. Then, the look itself, we shot Alexa LF, it's like a nice, big, large-format digital camera. We just wanted to try to capture, we always called it the “vertical majesty of the forest.” That's there in the aspect ratio, too, we just wanted to have a little bit of a taller frame, so you can constantly feel how small they were amongst these giant trees that really are so huge in real life.
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