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australian cinematographer ISSUE #60 DECEMBER 2013 RRP $10.00 Quarterly Journal of the Australian Cinematographers Society www.cinematographer.org.au V2.1 Now ReleasedFirmware shootingHigh &frame much rate more! The future, ahead of schedule Discover the stunning versatility of the new F Series Shooting in HD and beyond is now available to many more content creators with the launch of a new range of 4K products from Sony, the first and only company in the world to offer a complete 4K workflow from camera to display. PMW-F5 PMW-F55 The result of close consultation with top cinematographers, the new PMW-F5 and PMW-F55 CineAlta cameras truly embody everything a passionate filmmaker would want in a camera. A flexible system approach with a variety of recording formats, plus wide exposure latitude that delivers superior super-sampled images rich in detail with higher contrast and clarity. 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PVM-X300X300 For more information, please email us at [email protected] pro.sony.com.au MESM/SO130904/AC CONTENTS BY DEFINITION of the Australian Cinematographers Society’s Articles of Association “a cinematographer is a person with technical expertise who manipulates light to transfer visual information by the use of a camera into aesthetic moving 38 images on motion picture film or electronic recording systems” 2012/2013 NATIONAL EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT Ron Johanson ACS (Qld) VICE-PRESIDENTS Ernie Clark ACS (SA), David Lewis ACS (NSW) SECRETARY David Wakeley Quarterly Journal of the Australian Cinematographers Society ACS (NSW) ASSISTANT SECRETARY David Burr ACS (NSW) TREASURER Mylene Ludgate (SA) ASSISTANT TREASURER Ernie Clark ACS (SA) HISTORIAN Ron Windon ACS NSW PRESIDENT David Lewis ACS VICTORIA PRESIDENT Warwick features Field QUEENSLAND PRESIDENT Jason Hargreaves ACS SOUTH AUSTRALIA PRESIDENT Ernie Clark ACS WESTERN AUSTRALIA Our Greatest Documentary PRESIDENT Jason Thomas TASMANIA PRESIDENT Peter Curtis 10 Turns Sixty ACS AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY PRESIDENT Miguel By Geoff Burton ACS Gallagher NORTHERN TERRITORY PRESIDENT Andrew Hyde 16 WEBSITE Lizz Vernon [email protected] Australian Cinematographer is Filming the Country published quarterly for members and associates of the Australian 16 of Lost Children Cinematographers Society By Geoff Burton ACS GUEST EDITOR Geoff Burton ACS SUPERVISING EDITOR Dick Marks OAM CHAIRMAN Ted Rayment ACS ASSOCIATE EDITORS Surviving the Desert Heidi Tobin, Nicola Daley ART DEPARTMENT Brad Sampson 22 on Walkabout CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Geoff Burton ACS, Mitch Kennedy, By Geoff Burton ACS Aaron Burton, Brian Hannant, Ranald Duhig PROOFREADER Ian Baseby TRANSCRIPTION Anita Planchon PRINTING Heroprint 32 PUBLISHERS AustCine Publishing - Level 2, 26 Ridge Street , One Night the Moon North Sydney NSW 2060 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA 32 Kim Batterham ACS ISSN 1440-978X PRINT POST APPROVED PP255003/03506 By Geoff Burton ACS Making Tracks 38 Mandy Walker ACS ASC BRANCH ADDRESSES By Geoff Burton ACS NATIONAL & NEW SOUTH WALES ACS Headquarters, Level 2, 26 Ridge Street, North Sydney NSW 2060 Satellite Boy VICTORIA PO Box 2023, Sth Melbourne, VIC 3205 48 Geoffrey Simpson ACS 56 QUEENSLAND 11 Balaclava Street, Woolloongabba QLD 4006 By Geoff Burton ACS SOUTH AUSTRALIA PO Box 705, North Adelaide, SA 5006 WESTERN AUSTRALIA PO Box 476, Leederville, WA 6903 TASMANIA 48 Diamond Drive, Blackmans Bay, TAS 7052 Journey Along Mystery AUST CAPITAL TERRITORY PO Box 1558, Woden, ACT 2602 56 Road - Ivan Sen NORTHERN TERRITORY PO Box 2111, Parap, NT 0820 By Geoff Burton ACS and Brian Hannant Love City Jalalabad 66 George Gittoes By Aaron Burton Cover: Photo by Matt Nettheim 04 / BY DEFINITION ISSUE #60 DECEMBER 2013 10 departments 06 From the Editor 08 From the President Encounter 74 Mike Molloy BSC ACS 22 and Stanley Kubrick By Geoff Burton ACS Film Facts 77 BY Ranald Duhig Short Films 48 78 BY Mitch Kennedy 66 Copyright AustCine Publishing and The Australian Cinematographers Society (2013) All expressions of opinion are published on the basis that they are not representing the offi cial opinion of the Australian Cinematographers Society, unless expressly stated. Australian Cinematographers Society accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any opinions, advice, representations or information contained in this publication. Australian Cinematographer is copyright, no part of it can be reproduced without prior written permission from the Society. All reproductions in this magazine have been done so with permission and credited accordingly. CONTENTS / 05 FROM THE GUEST EDITOR It was one of those cinematographer’s the view of the “other”, that makes our schedules to talk to me about their serendipitous messages, like: “how work so sought after by international work. Special thanks to my fi lmmaker soon can you be at the airport for a fi lm producers and audiences. son Aaron Burton, and to my old friend location survey in Tuscany,” or “we’re and colleague Brian Hannant, who fully funded on this movie but can’t I have long been interested in helped enormously with the George move forward until you agree to shoot pursuing the source of our national Gittoes and Ivan Sen interviews it”. In this case it was a message from cinematographic accent and this respectively. Thanks too, to Dick this magazine’s proper editor, Dick interest is evident in my choice of Marks for trusting me with this baby Marks, to ask if I would be interested material for this edition. Our skill in and to Associate Editor Heidi Tobin for in guest editing this issue. I think I interpreting and expressing our physical invaluable assistance with its delivery. hesitated for fully a minute before landscape, and our social environment, Geoff Burton ACS accepting, especially when he urged in the visualizing of our feature fi lms me to trust my instincts and said he is almost legendary internationally. I “expected to see my fi ngerprints all over also explore one of the most seminal the magazine”. So here it is, fi ngerprints storylines in the modern history of our cinema, one that is so dependent on and all, though hopefully no tar drops f from the thumbnail. cinematography, that of “lost children”. Along the way we look at inspiration; the Australian cinematographers, like all fi lms, fi lmmakers and images that drive fi lmmaking professionals, are blessed and enhance our creativity, and explore to work in an industry that has such a the work of feature cinematographers highly negotiable international language, who multi-skill; writing, directing, a quality that facilitates creative work producing, even editing and composing, opportunities in many fi lm cultures. But as well as delivering extraordinary it is the national accent of that language images. that is its most valuable characteristic; it is this accent that defi nes our National I am extremely grateful to the six Cinema, and it is this accent that working cinematographers who enables us to provide a different view, managed to fi nd time in their busy 06 / FROM THE EDITOR With over 50 amazing new features, DaVinci Resolve 10 now combines the Live Grading On-Set world’s most powerful color correction with new online editing, live grading More post production now starts on-set with lighting and from cameras and new digital cinema fi le generation compatibility. Now other aspects of the shoot verifi ed with color correction. you can edit, color correct, grade live from cameras, sound sync, manage Now DaVinci Resolve can grade live from your camera with media and deliver fi les for broadcast and cinema all from the one software the full creative power of primaries, secondaries, power tool! 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Full Resolve with colorist control surface for the most advanced facilities. 36,955 Learn more today at www.blackmagicdesign.com/au/davinciresolve The backbone of our Society is our members, but I want to reinforce at this time the incredible voluntary work done by our ACS Branch Committees.