Ken Loach & Barry Ackroyd - Director & Cinematographer

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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EPISODE 155- KEN LOACH & BARRY ACKROYD - Director & Cinematographer

Team Deakins speaks with director Ken Loach and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd (THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, SWEET SIXTEEN, CARLA’S SONG, LADYBIRD, LADYBIRD) in this episode. Barry (Episode 70) and Ken share memories from their many collaborations together and Ken is very open with us about his process. He tells us that the most important thing that the director has is the actor’s instincts. We learn what Ken looks for when casting his movies, why he shoots in sequence, what he looks for in a crew, what his rehearsal processes are like, and how everyone rides in the same minibus on his sets because he and his crew are one team. We learn how Ken’s experience at the BBC shaped his approach to filmmaking and why he didn’t go into politics. Ken tells Barry why he asked him to shoot Riff-Raff and how he believes Barry has a great skill for finding natural movement from a camera on legs and how it suited their collective ideas. Don’t miss it!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:09.8	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:16.4	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
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1:03.0	Today we have a special treat. We're speaking with a director and cinematographer who have collaborated
1:08.5	on many films including Riff Raff, Lady Bird, Lady Bird, Red and Roses, the win that shakes the
1:14.9	barley and looking for Eric. We're very happy to welcome director Ken Loach and cinematographer
1:21.4	Barry Acroid today. Thank you guys for doing this. Welcome. Yeah. Yes, it's a real pleasure.
1:31.6	Now Barry's already answered this question Ken, so we're going to ask you, how did you get to where
1:37.3	you are today? Was this always the path you followed down? Did you follow another path? How did you get
1:43.4	here? I think most people in our business that have riveted wherever they are through the
1:50.3	cities of accidents and good luck. I think I was a teenager. I was a stage-shock and wanted to
2:00.5	tread the boards and be an actor and I used to cycle the stuff that I'm leaving because we lived
2:05.7	about 30 miles away and see the great theatrical grades in the great plays and continue that through
2:15.8	university and tried to, I became briefly the worst actor in England for a year or two, did a
2:24.6	lot of supply-teaching and kept calling myself an actor and then managed to get a job as
2:30.4	assistant director of the rep company, which was interesting and a great educator, understood
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