EDWARD BERGER AND JAMES FRIEND - Director and Cinematographer Team

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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ED BERGER AND JAMES FRIEND - Director and Cinematographer Team

On this episode of The Team Deakins Podcast, we connect with a talented filmmaking duo for a fabulous conversation. Director Edward Berger and cinematographer James Friend (YOUR HONOR, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT) tell us how they like to make their films using only a single camera. They explain how using one camera allows them a level of precision that isn’t possible on a multiple camera shoot. We also discuss the importance of understanding the perspective of the film that’s being made. For them, that perspective dictates where the camera is placed for every shot, and how the sequences are edited. Edward and James were wonderful guests, be sure not to miss it! Available now!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deakin's podcast.
0:08.2	A collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deakin's and Aghast.
0:14.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:21.6	Today we're speaking with the director DP team.
0:24.8	They've worked together on several projects including television, the series Patrick Melrose
0:29.5	and Your Honor, as well as the recently released film All Quiet on the Western Front.
0:35.1	We're pleased to be speaking with director Edward Berger and cinematographer James Friend
0:40.1	today.
0:41.1	Thank you guys for doing this.
0:42.9	Welcome.
0:43.9	Thank you.
0:44.9	Pleasure.
0:45.9	Thank you very much, James and Roger.
0:46.9	We'd like to start with our normal question, which is how did you get to where you are
0:51.1	today?
0:52.1	Was it something you always knew that you wanted to do?
0:54.0	Did you find it later in life?
0:55.8	What was your journey?
0:57.4	So maybe Edward, if you could start and tell us your story.
1:02.3	So I come from a pretty small city in Germany where filmmaking wasn't really on the agenda.
1:09.4	I didn't have, so I come from Wolfsburg where they make the Volkswagen, it's a car factory
1:13.9	town.
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