He's got one of the most distinctive directorial styles of any auteur working today and his collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have resulted in some of the best British comedy films ever made, not to mention my favourite British sitcom Spaced. Here Edgar Wright talks to Slash Film about the art of the close up, as well as whip pans and snap zooms, all shots he's particularly fond of and the use of which is a large contributing factor to his visual flair. He shares some tricks and techniques, for example the whip pan onto a close up is usually done in reverse, although their camera operator was such a don he didn't have to do this.
"I'm a big fan of getting into a scene late and getting out of a scene early." Good advice often cited for writing an affective scene, in any form be it for the page, screen or stage. Edgar Wright also references James Cameron's tooling up montages as a big inspiration in Shaun of the Dead where he applied it to typically mundane sequences of everyday life such as boiling the kettle and tying shoe laces. Then in Hot Fuzz he took the Tony Scott and Michael Bay fetishization approach of slick cuts and sexy visual affects to the usually boring parts of police procedure such as the paperwork.
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