Cinematography is an iconic part of Lynch's work, particularly because it breaks a lot of rules to make his films seem so wonderfully weird. For a start, he uses a lot of mid-shots and close-ups of people's faces when they are speaking, usually without any head room, and from either high or low angles so their faces look distorted. This adds to the surreal nature of the scenes to confuse the viewers and make them more curious as to what is going on, as well as to make Lynch's style of filmmaking more unique. I intend to use these techniques in my film as it will be mostly a conversational piece, as not much action can take place in something so short.
Another aspect of cinematography used by Lynch is a two shot, because it shows the contrast between two characters (where Lynch uses thematically opposite qualities to represent different parts of the human mind). This usually is the case for his two lead female characters, who he uses to show the light and dark sides of our personalities, however he uses it for conversations between most characters also. I plan on using this shot for my film as it is something that can be done very easily, especially because I won't be using many characters for such a short film, to emphasize the difference and similarities in character identities.
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