Q: What is the name of your role? Camera Assistant. Or Focus Puller in the UK and 1st AC in the US.
Q: Can you briefly explain what your role is? To keep the scene in focus and assist the camera man with his requirements ie changing lenses, filters and film changes.
Q: Why is your job important? To make a film takes lots of different people doing lots of different jobs and I'm another cog in the wheel.
Q: What do you like about your job? There is always something different on each job and I still find it challenging and interesting. I see things that are different and get to work in amazing places, like up on a mountainside , on a navy ship or in a small school hall.
Q: What don't you like about your job? Night shots in the rain!!
Q: What qualifications / education do you need? We often learn on the job. I came from a Photographic background after completing a photography course.
We are using 35mm film for this movie.
Normal speed camera takes 24 photo's a second. The fastest 35mm camera we have on this set can take 150 frames a second. The fastest digital camera can take 1000's of frames per second. And with digital cameras you can see immediately what you're getting. With 35mm shooting film we need to process it every night. We take cans of film into the lab and do this extra work after a days filming is wrapped.
Overall we still like using 35mm film because about 95% of cinema's in Australia still play 35mm film rather than digital and 35mm is still producing the best quality picture, especially for big screens.
Q: What other movies have you worked on? Matrix, Superman returns, Hey Hey it's Ester and the Blueburger, Wolverine.
Hi Jack,
ReplyDeleteThought we'd do a quick 'post' before assembly.
Wow - 1000 frames per second! That's incredible! Have you filmed a scene in the rain? What happens if they want it to rain and it isn't raining? What do you do? Do you just wait or are there special effects that you use?
We've noticed the post times on your blog. What time do you go to bed?
G2G - we're running very late for assembly so see ya!
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