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- David Slade was born on September 26, 1969 in the UK. He is a director and producer, known for Hard Candy (2005), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018).
- Non-stop camera movement
- Dim lit settings
- 45 degree shutter angle
- Distorted faces. The trademark comes from having worked with WARP Label where along with other directors - mainly Chris Cunningham and Daniel Levi - this trademark was utilized in music videos directed for artists on that label
- Straight down overheadshots, sometimes in a tracking shot.
- Directed music videos for Aphex Twin, 3 Colours Red, Maxim, Stone Temple Pilots, POD, The Stereophonics, Muse, System of a Down, The Music, and more.
- Some of his favorite movies are Eraserhead, 12 Monkeys, Vertigo, West Side Story, Bambi, The Godfather Part II, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, True Romance, Suspiria, Escape From New York and Pleasantville.
- Of all the projects he's directed, the Black Mirror episode "Plaything" is his favorite.
- The DNA of suspense is in the way the film is made.
- [on digital filmmaking] You always have that discussion with the studios of, "Maybe we should shoot this on film?" And then they go, "Yeah, right..." You go with a really solid argument with great power and strength. And then it gets hacked to pieces and eventually you are there with a digital camera. To me, getting into trying to make this visually arresting was like tearing apart a digital video camera and figuring out what it does really well, embracing it, not rejecting it and saying, "Film is so beautiful and so much better quality," which it is. But, still, saying, "This is what we've got. Let's work the best we can with it".
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