The story reason for doing that is we’re trying to say that Miles” universe is different than any other. It’s all drawn from graphic techniques to create the illusion of space and distance.” “Yeah. In our movie, we don’t have any computer blur effects. That’s drawn from the imperfect comic book printing techniques that give the illusion of blur. Those become important later in our movie, so we’re setting that up here also.” “A little help?” NARRATOR: “You can also see a lot of the use of different printing techniques that are transposed to cinematography techniques with our halftone dots, which are drawn from comics, the use of chromatic aberration you can see here, where the figures in the foreground are kind of blurred, and the colors and the edges drift over each other. Jack Kirby is a comic book artist and is famous for these very abstract expressive dots. We’re also setting up this idea of Kirby dots. We’re not just evoking kind of, like, “80s and “90s visual aesthetics. We’re doing an effect right here where his paint is splattering the camera in dots. I mean, we really tried to stretch and use the textures of hip-hop, use the textures of graffiti, street art, even the cutting patterns that you’d see in, like, a music video. And he’s looking to just blow off some pressure from school.” “Now, you on your own, Miles.” NARRATOR: “The sequence is fun. You know, his uncle Aaron brought him down to this place that he’s never been before, a place that has some history between Aaron and Miles” father Jefferson. This is Bob Persichetti.” “This is Peter Ramsey.” “And this is Rodney Rothman, and we are the directors of “Spider-Man - Into the Spider-Verse.’” “Alright, so this is our obligatory spider biting kid scene, but this one’s special because we’ve got Miles. Transcript ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ | Anatomy of a Scene The directors Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman discusss a scene from their film where the lead character Miles (voiced by Shameik Moore) gets bitten by a radioactive spider.