THE LOOK OF THE FILM

As so much of the action in The Bone Collector takes place in Lincoln Rhyme's apartment, Noyce and director of photography Dean Semler, who won an Academy Award™ for cinematography on Dances With Wolves, were faced with the interesting challenge of filming this relatively static situation in a visually-dynamic manner.

Noyce says, "We could have artificially moved the actors, but I decided not to do that and let them play the reality instead. We also could have artificially moved the camera, but I decided not to do that either because each camera move needs to be motivated by something within the scene. In fact, the only time the camera moves in a shot involving Rhyme is when he's talking to Amelia via radio and she's moving, working a crime scene on his behalf."

He continues, "We shot twice as many camera set ups and camera angles as you would for a normal dialogue scene, so that when the scene is cut, the audience will get the impression of kinetics or movement simply because the camera is always cutting to somewhere new, and we hope to always be one step ahead of the audience."

Acknowledging Washington's riveting performance and the compelling shooting style, Stroller says, "A man lies in bed for half of this movie and we'd go to dailies every night and sit there and be magnetized."

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