OLIVER STAPLETON - Cinematographer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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On this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, cinematographer Oliver Stapleton (THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, THE GRIFTERS, MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE) joins us in conversation. In addition to his career as a cinematographer, Oliver is also the Co-Head of Cinematography at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK. Oliver credits his life in film to his mother and her steady hand as the family camera operator, and he shares how he created his submission film to gain admission into the NFTS after visiting the campus on a lark. We discuss how, as a cinematographer, one’s job is to help the director execute their vision rather than impose your own on a film, and Oliver reveals how he grapples with finding the best way to introduce young directors and cinematographers to each other in film school. Oliver also regales us with the many tales and insights that have stuck with him from his long career. Towards the end, with a look to his past, Oliver remembers once animating Spiderman in his youth, and with a look to our future, he predicts the future of filmmaking and moviegoing.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us,
0:16.0	so listen in and see where it goes.
0:19.0	This episode is sponsored by Philex, a California-based lighting company with close to 40 years of in-house lighting and expertise.
0:30.0	Philex is known for their LED color franels ranging from the smallest
0:35.4	philex Q3 to the largest philex Q10 and they set the gold standard in the
0:41.5	motion picture industry with precise color science, brightness, and beam shaping.
0:48.0	Philex recently launched a new LED color ellipsoidal called the phylex g3 which can make razor sharp cuts.
1:00.0	Today we're speaking with a cinematographer. His credits include The Grifters, My Beautiful Laundrette,
1:06.2	and the Sider House Rules.
1:07.9	We're pleased to welcome Oliver Stapleton.
1:11.2	We should also mention that Oliver is the co-head of cinematography in the National
1:16.0	Film and Television School.
1:18.0	Oliver, thank you for doing this.
1:20.0	Thanks for having me. It's an honor in a pleasure.
1:23.0	Oh, it's great to see you.
1:25.0	We want to start with our usual question, which is, how did you get to where you are today?
1:31.0	Is this something that you always knew that you
1:33.7	wanted to do or did you take another path and then find this? What's your story?
1:38.6	Okay, well I guess I came to realize in later age that my story really did start as a child.
1:48.2	I was, I'm an R.E.F. child, so every two years we moved from place to place, north, south, east west, Germany, France, and then
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