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Team Deakins

MATT REEVES - Director

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

Tv & Film, Filmlighting, Deakins, Movies, Filmmaking, Production, Film, Cinematography, Film Interviews

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Team Deakins sits down with director Matt Reeves (THE BATMAN, CLOVERFIELD, WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES) for a fascinating discussion. Matt indulges our appreciation for the craft behind THE BATMAN and shares how he and his collaborators envisioned Gotham and Batman as a city and as a person that could exist within our own world. We discuss how Matt’s use of visual effects has evolved and the importance of references to maintain a level of reality in fully computer-generated shots. Throughout the episode, Matt reflects on how he spent much of his career learning how to have a career and how every new project is like enrolling in film school all over again.

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This episode is sponsored by Falca & TrueCut Motion

Instagram: @falcagram & @truecutmotion

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Recommended Viewing: CLOVERFIELD

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast.

0:08.1

A collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.

0:14.0

We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.

0:22.0

This episode is sponsored by Falca, a Barcelona-based production company supporting television,

0:28.8

feature films and commercials, as well as assisting international companies planning to shoot in Spain.

0:36.1

Falca's team is adaptable and resourceful, and loves the craft of making good movies.

0:45.5

Today's podcast is being brought to you by True Cut Motion from PixelWorks.

0:51.4

True Cut Motion is an advanced motion grading technology that works seamlessly with both theatrical

0:58.3

and home streaming distribution, providing filmmakers with a broad new pallet of motion looks

1:04.7

previously not possible. By unlocking tools for the adjustment of jutter, shutter angle,

1:11.2

and speed ramps shot by shot and post-production, True Cut Motion gives the filmmaker

1:17.3

unprecedented control of the motion look of their work on any screen.

1:22.5

Today we have the pleasure of talking with a director. Among his films are Cloverfield, Let Me In,

1:33.4

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes, and the Batman,

1:38.1

we're so pleased to welcome Matt Reeves. Matt, thank you for doing this with us today.

1:43.2

Oh, this is such a pleasure. It's an honor to talk to you guys.

1:47.4

Such a huge fan of you guys. It's like, oh my god. Roger, you're like one of the reasons that,

1:52.4

I really wanted to make movies. For me, I always talk at these things. I'm very affected by light,

2:00.1

by the emotionality of light. Those are the things. I can't articulate it really

2:09.1

except that it makes me feel something in a certain way. There's something about that in cinematography

2:14.7

that has always moved me. When I was a kid, I had an eighth grade theater arts teacher who said

2:21.1

that we had to all go see fame, the Alan Parker film that was shot by Michael Michael Sarasin.

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