Academy Award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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How Do You Know You're Doing a Good Job?
When you're shooting film, especially when you don't have a lot of control in a documentary, how do you know that you're doing a good job? I used to feel this on documentaries. You just get an instinct for when something's interesting and when it's actually better to be on somebody's reaction rather than the person talking. Sometimes I remember just shooting some people talking and just thinking, God, that was really good. But I'm no idea what they said. And then you have it translated and you think, yeah, that was funny. That's strange how that worked. Maybe I never did. It's a personal taste, isn't it? Where you put the camera
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