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One relative newcomer to the Breaking Bad family is cinematographer Arthur Albert. Breaking Bad was photographed by Mike Slovis, ASC, who, when he got the chance to direct the last episode, brought in his friend Albert to shoot the last two episodes. After Breaking Bad, Gilligan tapped Albert to shoot the entire first season of Better Call Saul.
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He has also done a lot of TV work, as cinematographer and occasional director on The Wonder Years and ER.
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Among the influences for the show were film noir (look for the strong diagonal shadows in a scene set in a parking garage) and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist.
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One of the Breaking Bad trademarks that Gilligan wanted to maintain for Better Call Saul is placing the camera in unusual spots. [...]
“We put it on the ground shooting straight up, inside a coffee cup, on a threshold. Anywhere you could stick a camera, we put a camera,” he says. “When we were shooting a driving shot, I put it on the ground and Bob Odenkirk, who is a brilliant driver, very precisely drove over it without touching it. We were always looking for unusual shots.”
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