The Name to Motion
In early 2017, my buddy Mark Andrews requested if I might be his cinematographer on a brief movie. Mark and I met at CalArts and have been making movies collectively most of our lives, on and off. Most lately we collaborated on Brick & Metal, a fake-trailer-slash-birthday-gift for an additional CalArts buddy of ours.
Mark had been a narrative lead and a director at Pixar for years at that time, after a fruitful profession in conventional animation. He’d received an Oscar for co-directing Courageous with Brenda Chapman. He’d additionally been Andrew Stanton’s second-unit director on John Carter, and he wished to direct a live-action brief to indicate his vary with actors and stunts. So, like, a slightly-grown-up model of the movies we’ve been making since college.
I stated no.
See, I don’t actually contemplate myself a professional cinematographer. I like taking pictures, and I’m pleased to DP my very own work typically, however the accountability of Mark’s solo live-action directing debut felt like an excessive amount of.
We had been standing in my studio at that time. Mark appeared round and requested, “So what’s all this gear for then?”
Rattling.
