Gary Hymns - Key Grip (UK)

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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EPISODE 28 - GARY HYMNS - Key Grip

This is part 2 of a two part episode series where Team Deakins talks key grips. This episode features a very renown British key grip Gary Hymns, (THE BATMAN, 1917, SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY), who walks us through the British system of gripping. This episode features a very renown British key grip who walks us through the British system of gripping. Because he worked with us on 1917, we delve into the details of how certain shots were accomplished in that film as well as learning details from some of his other films. You’ll understand why there was a lot laughing on the set of 1917 after hearing his humorous commentary!

RECOMMENDED EPISODE VIEWING: 1917

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between
0:11.0	Roger and James Deacons often joined in the conversation by a guest.
0:16.3	It's very informal and we never know where it will go.
0:20.3	We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio.
0:25.0	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing pod,
0:30.0	POD at Roger deacons.com.
0:37.2	We're really pleased today to have with us a phenomenal key grip from the UK whom we've worked with two times, the latest being on the movie
0:45.8	1917.
0:46.8	He's worked so many movies that I can't mention them all, but let's just say
0:51.8	five Star War movies, two Bond movies,
0:54.8	Into the Woods, Thor, Prometheus, just to mention a few.
1:00.6	He most currently was working on the Batman, which had to shut down due to the pandemic.
1:06.0	He definitely knows his stuff and is a good friend of ours.
1:09.0	Welcome to Gary Hymns.
1:11.0	Hello.
1:12.0	Gary, we're so glad you're here with us today.
1:16.0	Firstly, could you tell us how you got to where you are now?
1:19.1	Did you always plan to be a grip from age five on? No no I started in 1973 as a post boy at London
1:26.9	weekend television which is on the South Bank. What's a post boy? Just delivering
1:31.5	the mail around the around the studios to the studios and to all the people who worked in the studios and the offices.
1:38.8	It was all one block. Originally, when I was at school, I started started I done seven weeks in the summer holidays at
1:46.8	Wembley Studios where London weekend used to be when I used to deliver all the mail to
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