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approach, gave me a beautiful creamy result. Soft light that was flattering and moody along with a snappy image. “In keeping with our classical shooting style we let the actors guide our use of camera movement, with little to no extraneous camera movement. My brilliant key grip Ben Moseley kept all of the moves very precise and almost invisible, and I tend to favour either an Arri Head or an older O’Connor 2575 fluid head which helps with that too. Occasional Steadicam days were operated by the always brilliant John Hembrough whose work is so solid that it matches what we were doing on the dolly absolutely perfectly. “Our director has a great eye and worked really hard to find locations with interesting visual character. The working men’s club was one of my favourites. It looked fantastic from almost every angle, required little to no dressing and I fell in love with the colours (and the low roof!) as soon as I saw it. I think it was my favourite location. I swapped out all the practicals and again relied on
in TV drama, at least in this country anyway. I used it quite a bit on season four of Line of Duty but with a more mobile camera. Here I thought it would work well with the gentler, more considered framing we were using. It’s interesting because when you’re in some of the great locations that the north east of the UK offers, the first instinct would be to lean towards wider lenses to try and capture them but I found using longer focal lengths with the Fujinons at a distance offered a viewpoint that was a little different, and worked well for us.” FILTER FLAVOURS “I tend to use a lot of glass filters, usually to change the quality of the lenses I’m using and fine tune the images to my tastes. In this case I was using a picture of Tiffen Low Con, Smoque and 812 filters throughout most of the shoot. The combination of the contrast from the Zeiss Master Primes and the Fujinon zooms, mixed with the softness of my filter package and the single source lighting
OUR DIRECTOR HAS A GREAT EYE AND WORKED REALLY HARD TO FIND LOCATIONSWITH INTERESTING CHARACTER
IMAGES Stephen used a lot of glass filters to change the quality of the lenses he was using and fine tune the images to his taste.
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