BCineSkills Supplement Category: Visual Storytelling Fundamentals
Nicole Hirsch Whitaker ASC / One Piece
VOYAGE OF ADVENTURE Production name: One Piece Production type: TV series Cinematographer: Nicole Hirsch Whitaker ASC (episodes one and two) Gaffer: Wiseman Dinizulu Director: Marc Jobst Overview of the production and what was the visual approach you adopted in terms of lighting: Marc and I met on a previous Netflix show, Jupiter’s Legacy, where we found a really similar … Read more
Get creative
There’s a certain subset of lighting techniques that film schools can’t teach. Cinematographer Owen McPolin ISC sheds some light on the creative thinking and resulting methods used when illuminating spaces. Even the highest-end shows will eventually present a camera team with problems which require a solution nobody has ever used before. Owen McPolin ISC has … Read more
Practicals make perfect
Sources that appear in frame are an important part of a DP’s palette, but balancing the light is an artform in itself. When it comes to practicals, collaboration between the cinematographer and the art department begins early. “It starts in pre-production when we are looking at locations or talking about sets that are going to … Read more
Bright ideas
Gaffers Carolina Schmidtholstein and John ‘Biggles’ Higgins take us on a guided tour of how they approached lighting productions of various genres and sizes with creativity and originality to realise the director and cinematographer’s visions. Camera departments constantly juggle a thousand challenges, but there’s one goal that’s almost universally sought, but rarely discussed in isolation: … Read more