AMC Interviews Cinematographer David Boyd

AMC has a way of keeping its fans craving for more and more Walking Dead news. With the massive success of the Walking Dead’s teaser trailer at Comic-Con, we’re left wondering what AMC can bring out, what’s left hidden up their sleeves. Before Comic-Con, we got  a weekly segment called “Dispatches From The Set”; interviews with comic series creator and executive show producer  Robert Kirkman, writer director, and executive producer Frank Darabont, executive Gale Anne Hurd, Special Effects Make Up Artist Greg Nicotero, and a few others. This week they released another installment of  ”Dispatches From The Set” where they talk with The Walking Dead’s Cinematographer David Boyd.

Having worked on NBC’s Friday Night Lights and FOX’s Firefly, I’ve honestly never heard of him before – I’m not a fan of either shows (how many of you hate me now?). In the Interview with AMC, Boyd talks about how he makes daylight terrifying and even compares The Walking Dead to westerns. I’ll do like I always do and show you some of the interesting parts and if you like what you read – which you will most likely – you can go to the entire interview on AMC.

Q: Horror movies usually take place at night. This series takes place mostly during the day. What are the challenges to that?

A: I think the challenges are to just get the idea that there’s something to be afraid of around every corner. Because it’s daylight you’re not normally scared — we’re scared at night. But the levels of this are brilliantly laid out by Frank: The rooftop is a little safer than street level, street level is really terrifying, and below street level gets safer. So the scary places start to be the safe places, and the safe places start to be the scary places.

I personally never thought of it that way, but I completely agree with him. Thinking back to early comics with Rick and Glenn, I see his point. I don’t want to spoil it for the people that haven’t read the comics, but him mentioning the roof tops is kind of literally exactly what Gleen and Rick talk about in a scene from the comics.

Q: You’re responsible for the show’s lighting and color, but your source material is a black and white comic. What inspiration can you draw from it?

A: Oh all kinds. Everything comes from the comic book. And then Frank’s taken it to its own place where it needs to be for us. Photographically all I’ve done is take most of the color out — I’ve desaturated things and I’ll bleed the color out. It’s still a color image, it’s still acceptable for television (because you can’t put a black and white show on television any more) –

You can read the rest of the interview over on AMC.

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