UT-Austin interview with Richard Bluck

[jbeale]

I don't know if this has been posted before. Probably has been and I missed it. Here is an interview at NAB with Richard Bluck, the DP for Peter Jackson, talking about shooting with Red in NZ. The interview was posted by UT-Austin student Maru Buendia-Senties.

"...it was fantasic, it worked really really well. [...] As a cinematographer I think the most important thing is to tell the story. The format that tells the story the best... I love shooting film, but then I really loved actually shooting on this camera." - Richard Bluck @ NAB April 18 2007

http://avid.blogs.com/nab2007/2007/04/peter_jackson_i.html

[Jarred Land]

Richard Bluck was great to work with, along with the entire NZ team.. there is a reason that Peter Jackson continues to be one of the worlds best filmmakers, and a few of us at Red were lucky enough to see it first hand.

[Yash Keough]

Awesome! Way cool find! The only question that remains...will you yield, in time? (to quote LeChiffre) And show us that PJ movie Jarred??? :D

Yash

[PaulClements]

It's always nice to put faces to names as well. Some very positive comments from Richard.

[Tonaci Tran]

nice interview. makes me wish i had more time to chat with everyone at NAB.

[jbeale]

One thing I would have liked to ask him- we're told the only thing enabled on the camera was the run/stop button, making me think they might not have had a histogram display. So unless they really trusted their monitor, I'd think the only exposure tool is the light meter. If so what ASA rating did they use?

[Brook Willard]

They metered to 250.