Jas Shelton, Emmy-nominated cinematographer on Homecoming Season 2, working with the Duplass brothers, Keanu with Key and Peele, The Stanford Prison Experiment

Jas Shelton's career has spanned nearly every genre, from comedy to
horror and suspense. Jas grew up in East Texas and attended the
University of Texas in Austin. He had difficulty getting into the
film program, so he started shooting music videos for bands, then
began shooting student films. Austin was a hub for fairly large
films at the time, where Jas found work as a gaffer or on second
unit, including Miss Congeniality, Varsity Blues, and The
Ladykillers. When he and director Kyle Alvarez began planning for
the second season of Homecoming on Amazon, they chose to use a
different color palette from season one, with darker, moodier looks
for the flashback sequences vs. the present day. They were
influenced by the look of 70's movies and Brian DePalma films, with
slow push-in zooms on the characters, several split-screen
sequences and off-center framing. Jas shot all seven episodes of
the series, and has received an Emmy nomination for his work. Jas
had also worked with Kyle Alvarez on The Stanford Prison
Experiment, which was another challenging project since most of it
was shot on a white laboratory set, but careful use of close-ups
and shadow helped bring more depth to the film. Jas's tight
camerawork and careful planning for Homecoming was a much different
approach from Jas's previous work with the Duplass brothers on the
series Togetherness, The Do-Deca-Pentathalon and Cyrus. Mark and
Jay Duplass favor a rough, homemade, documentary style, with lots
of improvisation, so scenes often began with close ups on long
lenses, with wider shots at the end. For the film Keanu, Jas's
experience with more improvisational filmmaking was useful, since
Jordan Peele would often rewrite scenes right before shooting. See
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