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This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Professor: Eliciana Nascimento Omar Hashem 10. 21. 2019 FMP 345

Agenda • Introduction • Roger Deakins • Life & Career • Cinematography style, and • Oscar Award Movie • Video • Conclusion This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

Introduction • "There was good cinematography and bad cinematography, and then there is the cinematography" Freddy Francis • What is Cinematography / Cinematographer • Global Names Ø Robert Richardson (United States), Ø Roger Deakins (United Kingdom), Ø Hoyte Van Hoytema (Sweden), Ø Maryse Alberti (France), Ø Emmanuel Lubezki, Ø Rodrigo Prieto (Mexico), Ø Chung-hoon (South Korea), Ø Greig Fraser (Australia)

Roger Deakins's life • Born in Torquay, Devon, southwest of England, UK, 1949. • Roger's mother was an actress. • Roger lived his childhood as an artist, loved painting and drawing. • While studying graphic design in Bath School of Art and Design, he discovered his love of photography, • Moved to the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire. • Deakins's hometown Torquay was one of his photographic documentary films. • In December 1991, he married a script supervisor Isabella James Purefoy Ellis.

Roger Deakins’s Career • Started as a cameraman & worked for 7 years as production assistant of documentaries. • Around the World with Ridgway was the first documentary with a 9 months trip. • Then worked with television studios to shoot in Africa • Early of 1980 s, Deakins worked on cinematography and directing documentaries and music videos. • Mountains of the Moon (1990), first film as a cinematographer in the US • Then, started working with the Coen Brothers as the leading cinematographer (Barton Fink Movie)

Roger Deakins’s Career, Cont. • The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) awarded Deakins for his achievement in The Shawshank Redemption. • Deakins was the first cinematographer who got two nominations from ASC, for two movies in one-year in 2008 • Likes to travel to different countries to enjoy taking photos. • During his free time, he enjoys living in his home at Devon.

• Unique • Shaping the image with spherical lenses • Use special techniques in the number of lights and lighting design. • Deakins style in six steps • Give each movie a unique style, • Use references for inspiration (mood and emotional connection), • Roll with the punches, • Keep an open mind, • Operate the camera (the movement of the camera and the composition), and • Keep conversations intimate. Roger Deakins’s Cinematography Style

Roger Deakins’s Cinematography Style, Cont. Ring light style becomes bigger and bigger in each new movie A Serious Man (2009)

Blade Runner 2049 • Master of naturalism • Ground the lightning "shooting almost everything in-camera (with both the digital Alexa and Alexa mini)" • Winter with snow and rain • Colorful atmospheric effect - smog scene with the gray haze • The yellow color • Flower • The cathedral • The red dust • The desert scene • Budapest

Conclusion • "I do not think I have a style" (Roger Deakins) • Unique style mixes nature with vision and talent. • Thirteen nominations and many BAFTA awards • Do not stop or lose hope • Finally, won the Oscar in 2017

Video • Cinematography In Deakin's Eyes

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