{"id":1947,"date":"2015-02-10T07:36:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T15:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2015-02-08T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:19:07","slug":"drive-the-quadrant-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/drive-the-quadrant-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinematography: The Quadrant System in &#8220;Drive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I eat this stuff up with a spoon. From Tony Zhou&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/everyframeapainting\">Every Frame A Painting<\/a> series:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s \u201cDrive\u201d (2011) is that the shots feel both tightly composed and weirdly unpredictable. Even though most of the images follow a simple quadrant system, Refn puts plenty of subtle touches within the frame. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/118321998\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Drive (2011) - The Quadrant System\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/118321998\">Vimeo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I eat this stuff up with a spoon. From Tony Zhou&#8217;s excellent Every Frame A Painting series: One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s \u201cDrive\u201d (2011) is that the shots feel both tightly composed and weirdly unpredictable. Even though most of the images follow a simple quadrant system, Refn puts plenty of subtle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}