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Topic: How much is raw film stock?
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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays
Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 01-25-2003 11:58 AM
quote: Imagine the responsibility a DP has for the otcome of the project!
Precisely! This is something I was thinking about just this morning. I was watching a behind-the-scenes show on some feature that the writer was directing. The thing that got my goat was, this kid wrote a screenplay, what does he know about making a movie: setups, staging, camera movements, composition, the logistical considerations of shooting out of sequence? Probably nothing!
People don't realize just how many movies today are actually being made by the cinematographer. He's the one making sure shots cut together; screen direction and looks are consistent between setups; ensuring that composition, camera, and actor movements harmonize for the best translation of dramatic elements to the screen.
Meantime, the public and press fawn over the latest "whiz-kid" writer/"directors", and the cinematographer's contribution is minimized or overlooked entirely.
There are exceptions, naturally.
Incidentally, in response to the original question, realize that not every take is printed. For flubs, a production is really only out the camera stock and processing cost - and the production time, of course. For putting the flubs on DVD, they only have to transfer from the negative, so they're not out anything in that respect, either.
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