Dion Beebe - Cinematographer

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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EPISODE 123 - DION BEEBE - Cinematographer

In this episode, Team Deakins speaks with cinematographer, Dion Beebe (CHICAGO, COLLATERAL, INTO THE WOODS, MARY POPPINS RETURNS). He starts by telling us about his failure as a focus puller and then shooting a film as a DP for the first time at age 24! We talk about how it’s hard when you are starting out to consider compromising, but as you learn more about the collaborative nature of filmmaking, it becomes easier, as well as the idea that getting worked up on a set will never help you achieve your goal. Dion speaks about the difficult balance of knowing when and how you need to work with what you’re given and when to stand firm. We also cover learning to light, prepping for a film, and setting the look with the director. Dion also shares his experiences of working with Rob Marshall who taught him a lot about musicals and Ang Lee, shooting with a high frame rate. We cover a lot of ground 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
0:10.5	Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never know where
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1:20.5	Today, we're speaking with the cinematographer. His list of credits include Chicago, Memoirs of
1:26.8	Geisha, Into the Woods, Mary Poppins Returns and Gemini Men. We're pleased to welcome Deon
1:33.7	Beebe with us today. Thank you, Deon, for doing this. It's a huge, huge pleasure to be joining you
1:40.0	guys. Great to see you guys too. Here you guys. Yeah. We'd like to start by asking how did you get
1:47.2	to where you are today? What was your path? Did you take another path first or did you always know
1:52.1	from age five? You wanted to be a cinematographer? You know, for me, it started with a stills camera.
2:00.5	So the sort of love of photography really was sort of passed down to me from my dad. It was a dentist
2:11.2	but a very, very keen stills photographer. And so his love of still sort of got me into stills
2:19.9	probably from the age of maybe sort of 14, 15. And my mom was also a makeup artist. So she was
2:32.0	working in sort of fashion editorials. My dad, looking back on it, I think he had a love of
2:40.4	probably photographing beautiful women. So he was doing a lot of portfolio work and doing,
2:48.4	and my mother was doing a lot of makeup for editorials. And I sort of got into it through that
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