Take Shelter
"Mud"'s cinematographer Adam Stone used a Steadicam for filming. Stone, who was also cinematographer for Nichols's previous films "Shotgun Stories" and "Take Shelter", said, "If you look at "Shotgun Stories", the camera is fairly moored. With "Take Shelter", we had a lot more dolly work. In "Mud", the camera never really sits still. The locations were either super-remote or really small and cramped, so the Steadicam was the only thing that could get in there." The film was shot on Kodak VISION3 35mm film stocks in the anamorphic format with Panavision G-Series lenses.