In the Dark. Mike Figgis
240 x 180mm, 208pp. 2002
The phenomenon of the digital camera has shaken the foundations of the film industry. In addition to cheaper costs, digital video offers an immediacy and intimacy in both production and distribution that conventional film cannot. Collaborating with director Mike Figgis gave Morgan the opportunity to put into practice some of the ideas developed in the Dogme project he set at St Martins - a focus on the design process rather than the end product. The designer was to be invisible, his job to record but not influence the author or subject. Morgan allowed the book to design itself: Figgis' coloured scripts and notebook pages were reproduced in their form, and any additional notation was handwritten by Figgis directly onto the page layout. The stills were grabbed using a DVCAM playback unit and exported from Adobe Premier to Adobe Photoshop.
