Caleb Deschanel - Cinematographer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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EPISODE 86 - CALEB DESCHANEL - Cinematographer

Team Deakins sits down with cinematographer Caleb Deschanel for a great conversation. We learn about his experiences on the BLACK STALLION, BEING THERE, THE RIGHT STUFF, AND THE NATURAL. We talk about the key to being really good in the craft (recognizing a better idea), watching the actor do the performance for the first time, working with operators, the importance of crew choice for a DP, and the difference of operating a camera with the wheels. We also explore the critical relationship between DP and Director and how greatness is not always obvious in the making of something. A wide-reaching conversation that you don’t want to miss!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James
0:10.8	Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never know where
0:17.6	it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio.
0:23.6	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod at rogerdeakin.com.
0:34.1	This episode is sponsored by Ari. More than just the manufacturer of the film industry's top camera
0:40.9	and lighting equipment, they are also the innovator behind cinematic lenses such as the master
0:46.7	prime and signature prime lenses. Ari, truly cinematic.
0:54.0	Today we're joined by a talented cinematographer. His credit list is extensive. A few of his films are
1:00.6	being there, the right stuff, the passion of Christ and the Lion King. We're pleased to welcome
1:06.5	Caleb Deschanel with us today. Thank you Caleb for doing this. Thank you, Caleb. I see here.
1:12.7	Yeah. We like to start and ask you how you got to where you are today and was this something you
1:20.0	always knew as a child that you wanted to be a cinematographer or was it something you found later?
1:24.5	Did you go down another path? Just tell us all. I come from a long line of doctors in my
1:32.1	mother's side of the family so everybody expected me to be a doctor and it's funny because
1:37.0	a lot of cinematographers I talked to started out that way. It's funny when I was 13, I got a
1:45.6	little codec camera and I started taking pictures and at some point I remember I would get pictures
1:52.6	back and I noticed that some pictures were better than others. Then I started to pay attention
1:59.2	to why that was and I became interested in it. When I went to Johns Hopkins as an undergraduate,
2:06.0	I got interested in photography and I worked on the yearbook and I ended up in the editor of
2:11.2	the paper. Anyway, the way I ended up in film school is that there were two guys at Johns Hopkins
2:18.9	a year ahead of me. One was Walter Merch, the other was Matthew Robbins and they came out to USC
2:25.0	film school and when I was a senior, a year behind them, I was still at Hopkins. They kept calling
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