#thewire (5 links)
- Mike Banks interview thewire.co.uk
- What happens when a story loses a main character? economist.com
- The Wire in HD (updated with video clips) davidsimon.com
while we were filming in 35mm and could have ostensibly “protected” ourselves by adopting wider shot composition in the event of some future change of heart by HBO, the problem with doing so is obvious: If you compose a shot for a wider 16:9 screen, then you are, by definition, failing to optimize the composition of the 4:3 image. Choose to serve one construct and at times you must impair the other.
IfYouOnly: The people behind TV show The Wire explain why they are waging a war against the war on drugs: http://is.gd/AB9fvx (@TIME, 2008)