Cinematography encompasses a number of design and production elements, in addition to
camera movement. The use of light and color is a major component of the "look" of a
film, and an atmospheric film like Pan's Labyrinth relies heavily upon
establishing a strong color structure that depicts a sense of place, mood, and story movement.
Often a filmmaker will have a distinctive visual style that one sees portrayed in most, if not
all, of their films.
Guillermo del Toro is known for having a somewhat
"dark" or subterranean look to his films. This can be seen in the more recent film
The Shape of Water, as well as in earlier films such as The
Devil's Backbone . The idea of a film's sense of place, particularly a place that is
connected to a fantastical or supernatural version of reality, as del Toro's films often are,
can be related to actual locations or to ideas such as the natural...
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