Aman Anand

I think of editors as prosecutors and the directors as the detectives. The directors gather all the information to be presented but the editor chooses to put a selection of the evidence that best tells the story in the information pool they have.

As a frugal film student I always look for way on cutting down on my costs, but it would really be counter productive to cut out the DP. Camera operating and directing at the same time cam be looked up by two distinct perspectives. As an actors director I have trusted my DP with framing and lighting (that is if I know them and they know what I want) but some directors are directing for the audience, they need to control every aspect of the frame including the performance. These directors would rarely "trust" someone to frame for them. On short films with enough planning and rehearsal a director can camera operate and direct at the same time but like functioning alcoholic they might lack a bit.

Hey, So I am a fairly new cinematographer and as a school project am DOP on a PSA. The director wants to shoot at 240fps which is cool to look at in a dolly out at 35mm lens traveling about 25 feet starting 10 feet away from the subject to (you guessed it) 35 ft away. In 10 seconds. I know the epic can do the frame rate smoothly and all but my real concern is the pockets of light in the background coming from various trees and bushes. I want to use HDRx but have never used it before in a dolly shot. Are the frames in HDRx take at the same time? Will it look more jerky and "flickerish" in post? The ambient level is around f16 the hot spots are f64, shooting at f2.8 with ND 6&9 and HDRx at 4 stops I am hoping to maintain the lighting to be consistan and normal, without hotspots. Is there something I am missing or overlooking