Alan Caso

 Alan   Caso  is a cinematographer  who serve d as  director  of photo graph y on the 2 1999 Muppet film s, Muppet s from Space &  The Adventure s of  Elmo  in  GROUCH  land . For t he latter film , Caso discussed some of the complexities of the task in the press kit :

" In this film, I was n ' t able to use the camera as a point of reference from which you see the world of the movie . It was more like looking at it from a c h i l d ' s k n e e s . The Muppe teer  s hold the Muppet s up over t h e i r h e a d s so that t h e y are about 6 feet up in the air , & any h u m a n s in the scene are up in the air about 9 feet because they stand on 3 - foot platform s in order to be in perspective with the Muppet s . I ' m standing on the floor looking up at everything . We had to work off ladder s & platform s using a remote camera on a large crane which did n ' t allow us to look through the camera while we were lighting & shooting , but through a video tape on a remote head.

. . . Another challenge was keeping Elmo from glowing. He was so red that we tried to use a different light to off set some of the red ness. The thing about all Muppets is that they suck up the light. Elmo, Grover. Telly, Cookie Monster , those character s really suck up the light.  OSCAR  lit the best. There were definite consideration s to be deal t with in keeping light on the Muppets & trying to minimize it on the h u m a n s. "

Caso ' s other credit s i n  Reindeer   Game s ,  Ed  ,  Midnight   Kiss  , &  Hotel   Oklahoma . His most prolific work has been in television, how ever , on such series as  Slide r s  ,  Any   Day   Now  ,  Joan   o f   Arcadia  , & 6  Fee t   Under  ( which he also directed  an episode of ). TV movie s & miniseries, include  Tom   Clancy ' s   O p - Center  ,  S hake ,   Rattle   &   R oll  , Frankenstein ,  Into   the   West  &  The   Librarian :   Quest   for   the   Spear .

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