Tony Jannelli - Head of Graduate Cinematography at NYU

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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EPISODE 104 - TONY JANNELLI - Head of Graduate Cinematography Studies at NYU

Team Deakins speaks with cinematographer Tony Jannelli who is the head of the graduate cinematography department at NYU. He walks us through the structure of NYU film school and how the filmmaking is taught. He speaks of how important it is for a young filmmaker to find their own taste and intuition and how NYU works to develop this in their students. After speaking with him, it was clear why so many great filmmakers come out of NYU!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James
0:10.6	Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never know where
0:17.6	it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio.
0:23.5	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod at RogerDeakin's.com.
0:33.9	This episode of the Team Deakin's podcast supported by Company 3, the world's leading post-production group
0:41.1	dedicated to collaborating with both emerging and established filmmakers.
0:45.9	Today we have a special guest. He's a cinematographer and currently the head of the graduate cinematography
0:54.2	department at NYU, a school with very prestigious alumni. We'd like to welcome Tony Janelli with us
1:01.8	today. Tony, thank you for doing this. Thanks, Tony. My pleasure. It's a real honor to be with you.
1:08.2	I can't believe how many years it's been since I've seen you, but that's a whole other thing.
1:12.5	Yeah, I know. It's really a lifetime ago, right?
1:18.8	I think we're going to start with a question. How did you get to where you are today?
1:23.3	When you were a kid, did you know right away you wanted to create images or did you go down
1:28.6	another path? Tell us your story. Okay. Well, I guess like many cinematographers, I was always the
1:36.0	kid with the camera, you know, just shooting everything I could think of. And you know, I was like
1:43.3	the photographer for the high school yearbook. So I was shooting stills of wrestling matches and
1:49.2	football games and the cheerleading squad and all that stuff. And then when I went on to college,
1:56.8	I was a theater arts major and not because I wanted to be an actor or direct theater, but really
2:02.7	because I was interested in stage lighting, theatrical stage lighting. And while I was in that
2:09.6	program that was CW Post and Long Island, they began, you know, this was in the early 70s. So
2:17.0	they began like many schools, a filmmaking program, which I eagerly enrolled in and you know,
2:23.3	made some, made some short films and super eight and 16 millimeter and so on and so on.
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