Pepe Peralta

Is curious, I had come today with the Idea of posting a "Will work for Food" or "Looking for a DP to work as a Trainee... I'll cross the world if necessary... just need some food and a place to crash when work allows it!" And still have that plan, but after watching the pandemonium caused by Laura's posting and the very little interest anyone here has for giving her a chance to learn, I think I´ll take my chances with the disadvantages of living in a Third World country with a virtually non-existant film industry. I'll keep knocking on everybody´s door. It's a shame that I would probably have to keep working for DP's without experience (that's how the average films here in Peru are done); But you can bet anything you want that I'll take all the best I can learn until becoming the best DP there is, and when I get up there, I'll try to take all the Laura's I can to share my expertise with; and I would have really expected all of you guys with more experience, even if you don't have an ongoing project at the time, to do the same. This is a great job, we should all be enjoying it and sharing our different degrees of expertise with others... I've always heard that unlike any other trade in the film industry, Cinematographers are always sharing their discoveries, their experiences and experimental results, as a great brotherhood; and I swear that's what I was expecting to find here. I hope I'm not mistaken. Have a nice day everybody, hope all of you get great projects and lots of work! Pepe

Two questions: - Is there any magazine other than American Cinematographer about cinematography of films made outside the USA? - What really good books are there about cinematography and for learning about cameras, lenses, lighting, lab work, emulsions, examples of DoP's works and any other important related subject that any newcomer with Becoming-a-DoP ambition should read?

No way, don't shut up! If Mr. Khondji will be the lead for learning about and from other cinematographers, so be it!

Thanks Stijn, that was a far more illustrative answer than I was expecting, but also a far more complicated process... And I promise to keep it in english.

Hi Danielle, here a few options that could lead you to try to go baby steps to your goal: Try to join or participate in a University Film Club or group you may be interested on, they usually shoot more often that any other groups, maybe not professionally but you´ll gather experience, and some of their projects could really be interesting. Read and watch films, try to experiment styles you lik with stills, Photography and Cinematography are really close cousins, and never surrender. It will be hard? Yes, You´ll make mistakes? YES, but the feeling of getting the film ready is worth everything. Go and take it!!! Pepe

Any Ideas about the type of film and filters or about how the look in Delicatessen and The City of the Lost Children was Achieved? Si alguien está dispuesto a conversar del asunto en Español estaré muy agradecido.