11. Focus on Cinematographer Robert D. Yeoman

Robert D. Yeoman is an accomplished cinematographer best known for his work in every live action film directed by Wes Anderson so far. He has an interesting style that we can consistently see in his shots. I'd like to focus on a couple pieces of his work from Wes Anderson films:

Yeoman's style complements the whimsical tone of "heightened reality" in Wes Anderson's films. The movies typically have anachronistic settings, with unsurprised and unfazed characters going through surreal, insane adventures. In this clip from The Life Aquatic, we see Yeoman use a muted color palette coupled with fairly even, high key lighting. This creates a sense of realism - from the ambient, full light - but with an undertone of the fantastic, or at least very different, with the muted pastel colors. Yeoman also seems to be fond of camera movement that is very artificial, such as character dollies and sudden zooms. These movements increase the sense of strangeness and nostalgia that is associated with the world Yeoman and Anderson's films deal in.

We see the same brushstrokes of Yeoman's cinematic painting in The Royal Tenenbaums. The scene opens up with his consistent artificial-feeling camera movement, with the camera filming from a track moving with the characters laterally. Again, the colors and lighting seem consistent with the first scene, showing how Yeoman's style shines through various different pieces of art and remains clear to us on the other side.