Netflix — Khufiya

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Khufiya.

Netflix

Client
Netflix
Category
Series & Films
Role
Director / DOP
Year
2024
Format
720 × 1280

A vertical piece for the Khufiya release, framed for the phone from the first setup rather than cropped down from a landscape master.

Framed for the phone from the first setup. Cropping a landscape master down to vertical is the usual route and it always shows — heads clipped, action pushed to the edges, compositions that were never meant to be that shape.

Shooting vertical natively means blocking for a tall frame: subjects stacked rather than spread, movement running up and down the frame instead of across it. More work on the day, and the only way the result looks intentional.

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