@_H_Solo@Millythekid_inc @THETREE0FLlFE In there I believe lies the disconnect between what you’re saying and what the OP is saying - it’s not simply the different styles of visuals it’s the efficiency with which those different styles were able to be captured in a practical sense. Leaning back into collaboration.
@_H_Solo@Millythekid_inc @THETREE0FLlFE Cinematographers are widely regarded in the same light as you have placed on them: A mere technical helping hand. Lacking creative input. The back end engineers following behind the Zuckerbergs and Musk. But, gratefully they are so much more than that.
@_H_Solo@Millythekid_inc @THETREE0FLlFE For example: Scorsese could want to see Leo hype up an entire party of people, maybe even from a balcony, but a cinematographer could offer the suggestion of the view diving from above him so that the layer of the shot both interprets him as above the crowd as well as apart of it