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Read Variety‘s Lady Gaga cover story here.Matthew LibatiqueDirector of Photography“I would say the jumping-off point was we decided to place the camera onstage rather than ever seeing it through the audience’s perspective,” Libatique says.
“We started the film onstage at Coachella.
Lady Gaga doesn’t lip-sync.
For her, every performance was 45 minutes of warmup and her exercise ritual.
I didn’t want her to go through four or five takes.
We had to be prepared.”Karen MurphyProduction Designer“I was interested in looking at the reality of the music industry,” says Murphy.
“I suggested all along that we use real environments that people understand and know.
We actually went to ‘Saturday Night Live.’” She chose the Greek Theatre for the performance of “Shallow.
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