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Cinematography

Lighting Disney – Design for Beauty and the Beast

August 31st, 2017

When Disney chose to give its classic animation Beauty and the Beast the live action treatment, those enormous animated sets needed a real-world lighting...

Against The Law – Lighting on a budget

August 31st, 2017

Johann Perry is a vastly experienced documentary DOP who is shooting his first drama feature. Due to budget the lighting design was one of...

Dark Destroyer – Alien: Covenant

August 30th, 2017

The eighth film in the epic sci-fi franchise, the new Alien: Covenant movie recalls the tone of the first time we met the acid-blooded...

Going Rogue

June 6th, 2017

Rogue One is one of the fill-in Star Wars films but is now seen as one of the best. DOP Greig Fraser tells us...

History Boys

June 6th, 2017

2017 marks 100 years since August Arnold and Robert Richter rented a small former shoemaker’s store in Munich and set up shop as a...

Games Without Frontiers

June 6th, 2017

The efficiency of game engines in processing polygons and assets is enabling a live VFX option from feature films to live broadcasters; let the...

Crashing Symbols

June 6th, 2017

A Cure for Wellness is a beautifully made movie that uses all that cinema is good at to play with your mind and assault...

The Sovereign State

March 21st, 2017

Already nominated for awards, Netflix’s huge production, The Crown preserves the highest levels of craft while motoring through the life and times of the first...

Napoleon’s Digital Rise

March 20th, 2017

Abel Gance’s five-hour classic silent movie may well have its greatest version yet in this painstaking restoration for the digital world. Definition talks to...

Magic in the Big Apple

March 16th, 2017

DoP Philippe Rousselot talks about how his shooting vision for Fantastic Beasts was based in reality in order to make the fantastical leap out...

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