How hard was it to shoot Darkness Falls with all the shadows and creative lighting?
Jonathan: Very difficult but we had Dan Laustsen who’s a fantastic cinematographer and he had shot Brotherhood of the Wolf. TeenHollywood: Were the shadows moving around CGI? Jonathan: No, that was people walking in front of lights. There’s not a lot of CG in this movie. The challenge was to really maximize production value with what we were given. The real thing is so much more believable because as soon as CG happens, you subconsciously know something is going on that can’t be real and I think that’s why directors are always going to push for the real thing if they can get it. TeenHollywood: The sound in this film is very good..very creepy. Jonathan: Before the studio gave us money for a great creature, we thought we were going to rely completely on sound design. We wanted to geographically show where she (the “monster”) was through sound. The more you show of something the more you demystify it so the more we could keep her in the shadows or in the sound, the better. You do have to
