TURNING THE TABLES - 1917

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 25 April 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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EPISODE 109 - TURNING THE TABLES - 1917

Team Deakins gets the tables turned on us led by esteemed still photographers, Alex Webb (Episode 30) and Rebecca Norris Webb. They ask us questions about the film 1917. We talk about the one-shot concept and how we worked to not make it a gimmick. We examine the choice of camera and lens and we compare this choice in still work and motion picture. We talk about collaboration, the last shot of 1917 and the trees that bookends the movie. We also speak of the impossibility to explain the power of a photo. We even got into a little discussion of the lighting of the film Chinatown! It’s a fun episode you won’t want to miss!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:11.5	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:18.0	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the
0:23.3	audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing pod.pod at RogerDekens.com.
0:36.3	This episode of the Team Deakin's podcast supported by Company 3, the world's leading post-production
0:42.9	group dedicated to collaborating with both emerging and established filmmakers.
0:48.8	This episode is sponsored by AJA Video Systems, designers of tools and solutions for production
0:57.7	and post-professionals manufactured in Grass Valley, California. AJA supplies productions with
1:05.3	industry leading video I.O. cards, converters for onset, including frame sync, genlock, fiber,
1:14.4	STI, and HDMI conversion. AJA prides itself in providing future proof workflow solutions for 4K,
1:24.4	8K, HDR, and beyond. Today we have another Turning the Tables episode where we get asked the
1:34.9	questions. Joining us to pose the questions are two renowned still photographers, Alex Webb and
1:41.8	Rebecca Norris Webb. The chosen movie topic is the film 1917. We'll turn it over to Rebecca and
1:49.6	Alex now, and hope that they will be kind. I hope so. Thank you for doing this. Thank you. We're
1:57.9	going to be very, very kind. We're in all of the films, so how could we not be kind? Roger,
2:04.9	I believe that in our previous talk, you mentioned that early in your career, you did a number of
2:10.4	documentaries, and I was wondering about that in relationship to this film 1917. I would think that
2:16.8	with these long extended shots, there would be a greater possibility of happy accidents, as well as
2:22.4	of course possible mistakes, than with a more conventionally shot film that matter, no matter how
2:27.6	carefully a take was choreographed, surprises could often occur, much like documentary work or even
2:35.3	still street photography. So can you talk about that a little bit? It's a great question. It's
2:40.9	really interesting because the opposite is true. Ah, okay. In a way, on a normal movie where you've
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