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Chay Donohoe

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About Chay Donohoe

  • Birthday 10/12/1971

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  • Occupation
    Cinematographer
  • Location
    United Kingdom
  • Specialties
    Proud owner of Bolex H16 and Modded K3 for sync sound. Interested in still photography and also filming music, promotional videos and short films.

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  1. I don't know about 'Arri', but 'Aaton' has always baffled me :blink: Although not as much as Beaulieu (There's a place in the U.K. called Beaulieu, and I believe it's said "B-yew-lee" to rhyme with "truly") (I'd expect the correct pronounciation to be the one from the company/country from which the thing in question came) C.D.
  2. Oops! I blame that on reading too much on the history of cinematography :D (Cellulose Nitrate being the erm..."highly flammable" film base, right?) Thanks for setting me right, John
  3. Another analogue of the Film vs. HD argument was the CD vs. Vinyl debate that was (and still is) going on. Vinyl is great, it offers so much more flexibility than CDs do (as far a DJing goes, that is) and in order to get an approximation of what can be done with vinyl while using the CD format would require equipment costing at least twice as much. Conversely, vinyl is a bulky format requiring something like ten to twenty times the weight for the same content. So, in the end it all comes down to practicality. As much as I love playing vinyl, I'd rather take a CD wallet with about fifty CDs in to the venue I play at rather than break my back with a truckload of vinyl to accomplish the same task. Back to Film vs. HD; It's a "horses for courses" situation, i.e. what is more suitable to accomplish the task, given budget, time constraints, availability of skills and equipment etc. I find that film has a certain "Je Ne Sais Quois" (sp?), it's a black art in itself and I for one can't wait to get my hands dirty, filming with good 'ol cellulose. :)
  4. I remember once hearing "RED'S UP!" on set rather than the usual "PICTURE'S UP!". I guess the P.As in question were referring to the red light that goes with the bell. The other thing about this shoot was (similarly mentioned earlier), after the AD called to roll camera, I think "ROLLING!" was bounced between about ten people via radios and also over a public address speaker. As this was being shot in a huge indoor structure, the director had to wait about 5 seconds for the echoed shouts to die down (probably wasting God knows how many miles of film in total) before he called for action.
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