Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
DP Greta Zozula remakes the world of Gilead in The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. She chose a very specific color palette and brighter look to show the optimism for the young women at the school for future wives. Flashbacks to the world of Toronto are sharper, grittier and more realistic.
Key Podcast Highlights:
-How Greta kept the same camera and lenses consistent from The Handmaid’s Tale into The Testaments, while brightening and widening the look for the optimistic young women of Gilead.
-Establishing the aesthetic of The Testaments with a color palette of plums, pinks and greens rather than higher contrast reds and blacks. Greta also used different lenses and framing to separate Agnes’s world and Daisy’s world in Toronto.
-Using miniatures and a probe lens for the opening sequence of the show as the camera takes us through Agnes’s dollhouse.
Find Greta Zozula: gretazozula.com
Instagram: @gzoz
Show Rundown:
02:17 Close Focus
GOOD NEWS? Production seems to be creeping up in Los Angeles, thanks to some of the film production monetary incentives by the mayor’s office.
09:22-48:35 Greta Zozula interview
**Go to camnoir.com/ep355 for show notes and links.**
50:05 Short ends
Ben’s short end: Stagerunner LA, a website about production studio news.
Alana’s short end: Beef Season 2 on Netflix.
53:53 Wrap up/Credits
Host and editor in Chief: Illya Friedman
Instagram: @illyafriedman @hotrodcameras
Host: Ben Rock
Blue Sky: @benrock.com
Instagram: @bejamin_rock
Producer: Alana Kode
All web and social media content written by Alana Kode
Composer: Kays Al-Atrakchi
Check out Kays’ new YouTube Channel, Kays Labs, where he repairs old synthesizers.
Editor: Alana Kode
The Cinematography Podcast website: camnoir.com
YouTube: @TheCinematographyPodcast
Facebook: @cinepod
Instagram: @thecinepod
Blue Sky: @thecinepod.bsky.social
DP Greta Zozula remakes the world of Gilead in The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. She chose a very specific color palette and brighter look to show the optimism for the young women at the school for future wives. Flashbacks to the world of Toronto are sharper, grittier and more realistic.
Key Podcast Highlights:
-How Greta kept the same camera and lenses consistent from The Handmaid’s Tale into The Testaments, while brightening and widening the look for the optimistic young women of Gilead.
-Establishing the aesthetic of The Testaments with a color palette of plums, pinks and greens rather than higher contrast reds and blacks. Greta also used different lenses and framing to separate Agnes’s world and Daisy’s world in Toronto.
-Using miniatures and a probe lens for the opening sequence of the show as the camera takes us through Agnes’s dollhouse.
Find Greta Zozula: gretazozula.com
Instagram: @gzoz
Show Rundown:
02:17 Close Focus
GOOD NEWS? Production seems to be creeping up in Los Angeles, thanks to some of the film production monetary incentives by the mayor’s office.
09:22-48:35 Greta Zozula interview
**Go to camnoir.com/ep355 for show notes and links.**
50:05 Short ends
Ben’s short end: Stagerunner LA, a website about production studio news.
Alana’s short end: Beef Season 2 on Netflix.
53:53 Wrap up/Credits
Host and editor in Chief: Illya Friedman
Instagram: @illyafriedman @hotrodcameras
Host: Ben Rock
Blue Sky: @benrock.com
Instagram: @bejamin_rock
Producer: Alana Kode
All web and social media content written by Alana Kode
Composer: Kays Al-Atrakchi
Check out Kays’ new YouTube Channel, Kays Labs, where he repairs old synthesizers.
Editor: Alana Kode
The Cinematography Podcast website: camnoir.com
YouTube: @TheCinematographyPodcast
Facebook: @cinepod
Instagram: @thecinepod
Blue Sky: @thecinepod.bsky.social
