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Chris Brown, Executive Producer Sydney +61 2 8437 5555 Gold Coast +61 7 5656 7333 Melbourne +61 3 8532 8800 Auckland +64 9 360 8770 www.panavision.asia ac_issue#49.indd 3 22/03/11 2:15 PM of the Australian Cinematographers Society’s Articles BY DEFINITION 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 images on motion picture fi lm or electronic recording systems” magazine @austcine.org.au ............ Australian Cinematographer is published quarterly for members and associates 2009/10 NATIONAL EXECUTIVE of the Australian Cinematographers Society President: Editor: branch Ron Johanson ACS (Qld) Butch Calderwood ACS addresses Vice-Presidents: Chairman: Ernie Clark ACS (SA) Ted Rayment ACS Alan Cole ACS (Vic) Associate Editors: National & Secretary: Tony Luu ACS New South Wales David Wakeley ACS (NSW) Morris Hood BA DipEd PO Box 207, Heidi Tobin Cammeray, NSW 2062 Assistant Secretary: Robb Shaw-Velzon (ACT) Art Department: Brad Sampson Victoria Treasurer: PO Box 2023, Mylene Ludgate (SA) Consultant: Sth Melbourne, VIC 3205 Craig Pickersgill Assistant Treasurer: Ernie Clark (SA) Contributing Writers: Manny Aston BA Queensland Historian: Roby Turner BSc (Hons) 11 Balaclava Street, Ron Windon ACS John Bowring ACS Woolloongabba QLD 4006 NSW President: Dan Freene Calvin Gardiner ACS Justin Brickle Nicola Daley South Australia VIC President: Ben Nott ACS PO Box 705, Alan Cole ACS Leigh Hubner North Adelaide, SA 5006 Danny Ruhlmann QLD President: Ross Giardini Tim McGahan ACS Ron Johanson ACS Western Australia SA President: Callan Green PO Box 476, Ernie Clark ACS Tania Lamert Leederville, WA 6903 Henk Van Der Kock WA President: David Walpole Jason Thomas Rosemary Reid BA Tasmania 48 Diamond Drive, TAS President: Printing: Blackmans Bay, TAS 7052 Peter Curtis ACS Heroprint ACT President: Publishers: ACT Robb Shaw-Velzen AustCine Publishing PO Box 1558, PO Box 402, NT President: Woden, ACT 2602 Ian Redfearn West Ryde NSW 1685 Website: National Library of Australia: Craig Pickersgill ISSN 1440-978X NT Simon Russell PO Box 2111, Print Post Approved: Parap, NT 0820 PP255003/03506 4 ac_issue#49.indd 4 22/03/11 2:15 PM CONTENTS ISSUE #49 MARCH 2011 10 departments 06 From the Editor From the President Quarterly Journal of the Australian Cinematographers Society 08 features 34 Flashback ON SET - Get Your 46 Tony Wilson ACS 10 Kicks On Route 66 BY Leigh Hubner Getting Laid With P2 New Gear 16 BY Justin Brickle 16 48 BY Dan Freene The Wasted Diary 18 BY Dan Freene The Big Picture 36 50 BY Manny Aston BA Shooters: 26 Commercials Book Review 52 BY Rosemary Reid BA Holy Smoke 18 30 BY Henk van der Kolk Film Review Singularity Update 53 BY Robyn Turner B.Sc(Hons) 34 BY Ben Nott ACS 39 The Auricon Era Pt II CML 36 BY John Bowring ACS 54 BY David Walpole 20 National HQ 39 Opening 55 Short Ends Goodbye 42 42 Kodachrome BY John Bowring ACS 56 Snaps Cover: Leigh Hubner sets up his Canon 30 5dmk2. Copyright AustCine Publishing and The Australian Cinematographers Society (2011) All expressions of opinion are published on the basis that they are not representing the offi cial opinion of the Australian Cinematographers Society, unless ex- pressly 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. 5 ac_issue#49.indd 5 22/03/11 2:15 PM FROM THE EDITOR FROM THE EDITOR n the last issue we published four old photographs of filmmakers at work as a caption competition. There was Ione entry, from Martin Gentle who reads the magazine in London. Martin’s entries were: Page 54 top ‘Bump-starting the camera car in reverse was doomed’ and bottom of page 54 ‘Here comes the Health and Safety man’. Top picture on HeHelplp page 55 was ‘Latest gunboat sent to capture insurgents’ and bottom picture was ‘Just where shall we put the exhaust pipe?’ Build your It is 12 years since this magazine started and it is ACS Club time our Founding Father, HouseHouse Ted Rayment ACS tells how it came to pass. “The original idea for the magazine came from me as a suggestion to Federal President, Milton Ingerson who was against the idea as being “too costly”. So I sat down with Craig Buy FUJIFILM and Pickersgill and after some discussion we reckoned Ted Rayment ACS we could make it self- help build your clubhouse funding if we made it a $2.50 for a 400FT can of 35MM quarterly publication. It was on the proviso of this “no cost to the Society” that Milton gave us approval to go ahead with Issue 1. To do this and keep the funds separate from the ACS $5.00 for a 1000FT can of 35MM we established an account in the name of Austcine Publishing. Only payable if ACS members purchase, Craig chased up a few advertisers and became editor and money to be contributed to the ACS Clubhouse fund. the rest, as they say, is history. Brad Sampson has worked in the Design/ Print Industry for over 20 years and is our Art Director. His job is to join all the words and pictures that I send him together in a meaningful way. Brad is currently Prepress Manager of Heroprint’s Sydney Production office and he has overseen the production of the magazine since Issue 34. Brad Sampson Butch Calderwood OAM ACS Editor Contact Ali Peck from Film Support on 0411 871 521 or (02) 9979 5701 or email [email protected] www.fujifilm.com.au 6 ac_issue#49.indd 6 22/03/11 2:15 PM ac_issue#49.indd 7 22/03/11 2:15 PM FROM THE PRESIDENT management styles affecting our crews. We may be “down FROM THE PRESIDENT under”, but we are part of a global community and a global industry that continues to grow and change at an alarming rate. Are we keeping up, and if not, why not? I think we are, and in some ways our isolation allows us to step back, observe and then try things from another perspective. It’s what we’ve always done, but now we have to do it better and smarter. We have always been expected to achieve ‘more’ for ‘less’, but this has never been more evident than it is today. As Cinematographers the final ‘look’ of the film is our responsibility, yet in some cases this is being compromised unnecessarily. Ultimately we have to make sure we know and understand where cinematography and the associated technologies are heading, in order not to compromise the overall outcome of the production. The ACS has always believed in an open page philosophy with the other guilds and societies worldwide. Our thirst for knowledge and information and the sharing of this is of paramount importance to us all, to maintain a sustainable industry. Reinforcing this, we have been invited to attend the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) International want to begin by passing on our collective thoughts to all Cinematography Summit Conference (ICSC) in Los Angeles 2 those who have been victims of the terrible, life-changing – 5 May. The purpose of this conference is to establish open I floods in Queensland and Victoria. To make matters dialogue between cinematographers worldwide, to share worse, Cyclone Yasi a force 5 cyclone crossed the North knowledge of emerging technologies, and to discuss the Queensland coast and wreaked havoc on the communities in future of the craft in the wake of developments such as Virtual that area. There were heartbreaking fires in WA and now the production and the renewed interest in 3D. This will be an people of Christchurch, New Zealand experience yet another incredibly valuable experience for those representing all of the disastrous earthquake.