“We needed to find a way to see what Hazel and Gus were feeling as they read and typed the messages … I couldn’t imagine having handled the emails and texts in any other way.”īoone jokes that “there’s more effect shots in this movie than the original Star Wars … getting rid of wires, mic pops, stabilizing camera,” and more. After selecting pieces as inspiration for mockups alongside production designer Molly Hughes and meeting with Boone and producers Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner, the final shots were executed by a company called Spontaneous.
“The toughest part of those shots was making sure they communicated what they needed to for the story without being distracting to the scene,” says visual effects supervisor Jake Braver, who also worked on Blue Jasmine and the Cannes favorite Foxcatcher. That was the idea – to make it look like the fan art people had made for the movie, and feel like Tumblr.”
“So we looked at House of Cards and Sherlock, and said, ‘We should do something like this, but make it more like a Twitter-Tumblr aesthetic. “We can’t have them staring at phones the entire movie,” director Josh Boone tells The Hollywood Reporter of his discussion with cinematographer Ben Richardson. PHOTOS: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort Fete Love Amid Cancer at ‘Fault in Our Stars’ NYC Premiere The scene seems familiar not only because of the “young love” feelings that fly between them with every scribbled word, but also because of the visual design to bring their texts to the big screen in a way that’s a cross between House of Cards, the Fault fandom and social media platforms. Throughout the film adaptation of John Green‘s best-selling novel, white boxes with rounded corners and contrasting fonts appear onscreen whenever Shailene Woodley‘s Hazel Grace Lancaster and Ansel Elgort‘s Augustus Waters are flirtatiously texting about the books they’ve recommended to each other. The Fault in Our Stars is a film that pops - literally.