BRIAN: There is one particular sequence in, at the beginning of, of Middlemarch, where the girls, the two sisters are out riding, and given the time constraints of, of anything these days, um, on television, you have to get as much information over as, as simply and as quickly as possible, and so you don't have a long time necessarily in er when you've got quite a big story to tell, to get details over, so you have to do it as simply as possible. They want you to show the girls, and their sort of background that they come from, out riding, and I think we probably did it in about three shots, basically, and

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that was a very high speed tracking shot of the girls riding in beautiful landscape, and then a very high wide static shot um of the girls riding through the landscape, um and given this is 1830, um and it is in the Midlands (COUGHS) we wanted to show as much open space as possible, found a very nice view - as far as the eye could see there was nothing which shouldn't have been there - and, and had the figures very small riding away from camera, into the view, so it takes the audience's eye into this lush landscape that these girls are playing in.

Ref Code: PM-95 Title: Transcript from a video interview with Brian Tufano, Lighting Cameraman for Middlemarch, p. 29, reflecting on the power of cinematography in relation to the scene where Dorothea and Celia are horse riding. Date: 1993 Format: .png Source: ITM-7963 Transcripts of interviews with members of the cast and crew of Middlemarch (BBC/WGBH, 1994). Edited for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Educational Developments/BFI (British Film Institute) Education package Screening Middlemarch: 19th Century Novel to 90s Television. Held at BFI, London, UK. http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceArchive/110008677