Carroll Ballard - Director

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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EPISODE 132 - CARROLL BALLARD - Director

Team Deakins has the pleasure of speaking with director Carroll Ballard (WIND, THE BLACK STALLION, NEVER CRY WOLF, DUMA). We learn how he got involved in the project that became the film, Black Stallion, how he worked with cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel. We also discuss the particular challenges of that film. Carroll talks about the difficulties of working with animals and children as well as working with wolves and caribous in Never Cry Wolf, geese in Fly Away Home, and cheetahs in Duma. We also learn about how he met the extreme challenges of shooting the film Wind. We learned a lot in this episode!

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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
0:17.7	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.od at RogerDeakin's.com.
0:35.8	This episode is sponsored by Ari. More than just the manufacturer of the film industry's top camera
0:42.5	and lighting equipment, they are also the innovator behind cinematic lenses such as the master
0:48.4	prime and signature prime lenses. Ari, truly cinematic. Today, we're joined by a director.
0:58.0	His credits include The Black Stallion, Never Cry Wolf, Wind and Duma. We're really happy to welcome
1:04.4	Carol Ballard with us today. Carol, thank you for doing this. Thank you, Carla. Thank you.
1:10.5	We'd like to start with a question. How did you end up as a director? Was it something you
1:15.7	always wanted to do from a young age or did you take another path first and find it later?
1:21.1	What's your story? I was the other path. When I got out of high school, I wanted to design cars.
1:30.0	That was quite big interest. Wow. That's a bit different, but I didn't work out too well,
1:37.4	so I ended up in the Army. In the Army, I got interest in photography. I bought an old
1:45.5	single lens reflex and started crawling around the woods of Georgia and taking pictures of
1:51.5	berries and butterflies and stuff, and I got interested in imagery. It happened that the first
1:58.9	sergeant was a film nut, and he had this little film society at the post-church, so I joined
2:07.7	the society. There, I saw films that I simply didn't know existed. I mean, I saw
2:15.0	Peter Pancialli, I saw Rushaman, I saw some incredible films that sparked my interest.
2:23.9	When I got out of the Army, I went to homeschool and decided to try to do that.
2:30.0	You started by liking images, but when you started seeing the movies, did you like the telling of
2:36.0	the story? Well, I just liked the way those films were made. I mean, they were so different
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