[…] if the image on the screen has the wrong colour balance because your eyes and your brain now are fixated on surroundings and so it becomes much more critical how you perceive the colour on TV. And also, the contrast range that you can achieve out of the monitor or TV screen is quite different to th[…]
[…]the temperature went up from normal processing to high temperature, Fuji obviously had to make a new stock and they were terrified that they would be criticised for saying “Well we’ll change the stock and then your stock won’t work anymore.” Because obviously labs wanted to use higher temperature qu[…]
[…]n to view them as well.CR: So were you advising on the colour quality with the production teams?AM: I had to be very diplomatic about saying anything critical about the work of the cinematographer! And in general I didn’t. It was more that I went there to get the atmosphere of what was going on, to […]
[…]it in black-and-white” and I said to Lindsay, on one of the scouts, I said “Won’t that be weird? You suddenly cut to black-and-white scenes? What are critics going to make of it?” and he said “Oh don’t be ridiculous. They’ll think it’s art.” So that’s what happened. We shot those scenes in black-and[…]
[…]reason STV got the license the previous time around, which must have been 1980, was because there wasn't anybody else! And the history of ITV is very critical of STV and the programmes and the finances and everything else and there was a bid against them in 1980 but the decision was that they, the o[…]
[…]R: F? [Carol Owens]It was absolutely and I was also learning about cinema history as well and my first tutor on that was Philip Strick who was a film critic; professional film critic as well. And in my second-year vacation he got me some holiday work for a 16 mm film distributor in London in Surbito[…]
[…] thing, you know, between friends, between mates to say he was off on a freebie. This was exactly the kind of thing that Bolton would seize on and be critical of. And, as I say, I don’t think it had anything to do with him, it was none of his business, you know, the way we conducted our affairs. Thi[…]
