Meg Ryan Instagram – “Since Meg reached out to me she had a clear idea of how she wanted to approach the visuals. We talked a lot about liminal space, muted colors, limited background and reflections. The very concept of a liminal space is interesting, it’s about creating one without anything too specific so that every person could fit in, fill the space with ones own experience and ideas. We can all identify with an emoji face that is as simple as two dots and a line, but if you’d start adding more detail suddenly it’s not about you anymore. We wanted the airport to be such a space for our characters and audience. Strip it from anything specific, create a place that could be anywhere and nowhere, people lost in time and space, there is a magical realism that emerges from this.” #Cinematographer Bartosz Nalazek PSC takes us behind the liminal space of #WhatHappensLater captured with #ESeries optics. “The story happens on leap day, two people (once partners) get trapped by a winter storm – only their flights get cancelled and seems like the airport is literally trying to reconnect them. It’s a simple setup with the script based on a play, so there is a lot of exposure through dialogue. We shot in the beautiful Cristal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, and XNA airport in Fayetteville AR and spent the first two weeks with Meg trying to figure out the geography of the place and where are the transition points. The biggest challenge was marrying two major locations into one on a tight schedule of 21 days; adding set design elements that would help merge them better. I had to develop in my mind a way of lighting these major spaces that, on a larger budget, would demand giant lighting setups. Long hallways with long glass windows in both locations meant either extensive lighting or compact lighting using the available ambient lights and augmenting them. Since most of the story was told mainly through two characters’ dialogue, the effort went mostly into lighting portraits and finding a style that would be consistent despite many location changes as they explore the airport. Working with Panavision E Series anamorphic lenses really helped unify the look with their beautiful quality.”