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JOHN DE BORMAN - Cinematographer

Team Deakins

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The Importance of Double Camera in a Comedy

I've actually had conversations with directors where they say they want to shoot multiple cameras and I'll back off because I know it doesn't, it just doesn't work. Sometimes we do shoot double camera like on. But it's 90 degrees. You shoot 90 degrees to each other, don't you? So that, yeah, sometimes shoot a conversation. It was kind of important to have coverage on both actors, but you know, specific times, not as a general rule. And with children, I don't know. But do, yeah.

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