The excitement—and expectations—only ramped up once they learned more about Joel and Bruno’s vision. The design brief called for a very theatrical, high-contrast look. “Think German expressionism, think Nosferatu, think lots of chiaroscuro. And keeping the set design very simple, like here’s two walls. Clean, sparse. Do the rest in lighting,” shares Bauman. “It was very high contrast, very sharp cuts. It was like a Frank Miller graphic novel—really extreme contrast levels. So, then you start thinking: What are the tools we are going to use to do this?”