Writer-producer-director Ryan Murphy is more than a hyphenate simply by title – he is also one in style. Murphy has made a career of fashioning dramatic, bizarre and creatively frightening imagery with Michael Goi, ASC, for his award-winning FX series,...
Local 600 unit still photographers break down the hottest new trend in set photography – mirrorless cameras. By Pauline Rogers. Shorter working hours, tighter sets, complicated setups, and no time for compliance all conspire to make today’s unit stills position a...
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, helps the Coen brothers gate-crash a 1950’s-era Hollywood movie factory for Hail, Caesar! With careers dating back three decades (to Blood Simple), Joel and Ethan Coen boast an acclaimed filmography that ranges from farce to fantasy...
It’s hard to ignore the bold statement of so many female-driven stories at Sundance 2016 – even if we’d love to see more women DP’s among those ranks. Indie film media wags are already calling Sundance 2016 “The Year...
World’s first 4/3-type, large-format, 4K/60p handheld camcorder Records 4K (4096 × 2160)/24p, UHD (3840 × 2160) and HD (1920 × 1080) • 59.94p/50p/30p/25p/2398p and SD in MP4/MOV file formats Newly developed 4/3-type large-format MOS sensor with high sensitivity of f/11...
Jessica Jones is a new kind of Marvel superhero for the digital age – flawed, funny, female and streaming! Marvel’s new streaming Netflix series, Jessica Jones, is a modern noir: there’s a hard-boiled PI with a criminal past and a...
Superheroes are so much in vogue in Hollywood, one is even apt to find them behind the cameras. Case in point is Melissa Rosenberg, creator of the new Netflix streaming series Jessica Jones and friend to writers – and women...
The Force is back – bigger, better and bolder than ever as Dan Mindel, ASC, BSC helps J.J. Abrams restore the franchise’s thrilling (film-based) roots. By Kevin H. Martin and Matt Hurwitz. On the original Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope,...
Longtime SNL DP Alex Buono replicates classic nonfiction of all stripes for the new IFC series, Documentary Now! By Matt Hurwitz. Two women, a mother and daughter – both with the same name – are introduced in classic cinema vérité fashion....
B Camera 1st Ac – Andy Depung, DIT – Matthew Love, Unit Photographer – Karen Ballard, Digital Utility – Michael Stampler, B Camera 2nd – Matthew Fortlage, B Dolly Grip – Matthew Horochowski, B Camera Operator – Chris Cuevas, A...
Checco Varese, ASC, redefines chiaroscuro in one of the planet’s most harsh environments Imagine a place where the most basic elements of human life – light, food, water, going to the bathroom (!) – become complex logistical challenges of the...
Left to Right: Josh Williamson, Matt Guiza, David Speck, Charles Whelan, Mike Cassidy, Mark LaBonge, LLoyd Ahern, ASC, Eric, Echilling, Jefferson Fugitt, Bill Coe, Charles Murphy and Seth Orozco photo by Unit Photographer Collen Hayes...
