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EXPOSURE
EXPOSURE
THE FUJI PHOTO FILM UK MAGAZINE • AUTUMN 2002
F rom the ocean floor to the heights of the Himalayas – that’s the awesome span of stories told by the trio of cine- matographers featured in our Behind The Camera series. Ace underwater
cameraman MIKE VALENTINE BSC is the youthful veteran of more than 50 feature films not to mention music videos, commercials and his own independently-produced documentaries. He also worked on the Emmy-winning Shackleton which recently earned Henry Braham BSC the Best Cinematography Award in the 54th Annual Primetime prize-giving in Hollywood.
Documentary is very much the stock in trade of PAUL OTTER, a BAFTA nominee for The House, that splendidly revealing backstage look at the workings of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Otter’s latest project, shown on C4, is College Girls, set at single sex St Hilda’s, Oxford, which was more than three years in the making. Swedish-born JAKOB IHRE, a graduate of the National Film & Television School, has just completed his first feature, The Virgin Of Liverpool, an irreverent black comedy, co-starring Ricky Tomlinson, Johnny Vegas and Imelda Staunton. Earlier this year his short Procter won two top prizes at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Our Cover Story comes from a family-run dairy farm in the Vale of York where wildlife director/cameraman Paul Johnson found five species of owl occurring naturally on the 250- acre property. 5 OWL FARM, his colourful tale of some spectacular feathered friends, will be shown in the BBC’s popular Natural World series next year.
It’s home and abroad for a series of pro- duction reports. To Southern Spain where Rik Mayall and ex Eastender Mike Reid have been causing comic mayhem on OH MARBELLA. Paul Morrison, who earned an Oscar nomination in 1998 for his period Welsh drama Solomon & Gaenor, sets his latest, WONDROUS OBLIVION, in South London at the turn of the Sixties. East London is the setting for PURE, the latest col- laboration between director Gillies MacKinnon and John de Borman BSC. Then it’s back into the past for a report on the making of Stephen Poliakoff’s THE LOST PRINCE, a remarkable drama for the BBC about the youngest son of George V and Queen Mary.
INTERVIDEO, run by managing director Trevor Nash, has just celebrated 25 years ‘of excellence’ in the business of broadcast dupli- cation and quality assessment. He tells us how watching an evening news programme in the middle of the afternoon changed his life.
All this plus the making of a trio of shorts - Kenneth Branagh’s Listening, Ant Muzak, lit by Crighton Bone, and Fertile Ground from DM Davies Award-winner Keir Alexander – COMMERCIAL BREAK, featuring BSkyB’s Introduce A Friend campaign, and the low-down from cameraman Mark Carey on the production of a starry promo for BBC TV’s Sports Personality Of The Year promo, featuring the likes of Paula Radcliffe, Jonathan Edwards, Dwain Chambers and Ashia Hansen. ■
ERIC MOULD
DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
JOHN ROBINSON
MLLIE MORROW
JACKIE SPADACCINI
ROGER SAPSFORD