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music videos and several short drama productions. I choose stocks for a project based on the aesthetic we were after. Oranges And Sunshine takes place in two very contrasting countries and we wanted to establish subtle difference between the look of the UK and that of Australia without wanting to resort to clichés.
“One difference I wanted to utilise was texture. I don’t usually like to use too many different stocks on a film, however for this, I used stock choice to establish different looks that evolve with the mood, the location at- mosphere and emotional arc of the film. “I had four different Fujifilm stocks over the course of the film.
We shot the UK in winter and I chose to useReala500Dforalotofit.Iamafan of its more coarse grain and the less saturated quality, I love the way it looks when you mix the colour temperatures in a scene.
“I shot 500D on a music video when it was first released several years ago and just fell in love with its look. Then when we shot Australia in summer, using Super F-64D, less texture and richer colour without being over saturated. Day interiors in Australia were ETERNA 250D. I used ETERNA 500T for that and also for radio and TV studio interiors. I am really happy with the mix and I feel we were able to create a look for the film that we couldn’t have achieved in the DI alone.”
Baker, who says: “I absolutely loved working in the UK, we had a fabulous crew who made it a joy, I’d love to go back and shoot more there,” which summed up his “greatest challenge as a cinematographer. It is more than just capturing an image; it’s capturing a feeling, an emotion and telling a story.
“The cinematographer is the first audience for a film,” he enthuses. You’re looking at the shot as it happens and you want the feelings that you have while watching that scene to be the same feelings that the audience will have when they’re sitting in the darkened cinema a few months after that.” QUENTIN FALK
Oranges And Sunshine
was principally originated on 35mm Fujicolor ETERNA 500T 8573, ETERNA 250D 8563, Super F-64D 8522, and REALA 500D 8592
Photo previous page: DP Denson Baker ACS on Oranges and Sunshine shoot, photographed by Matthew Nettheim above and main: Baker and crew on the beach shooting Hugo Weaving and Emily Watson for Oranges And Sunshine; from top clockwise: Jim Loach (centre); Rhys Wakefield and Gemma Ward in The Black Balloon; Emily Watson; Radha Mitchell in The Waiting City; Denson Baker lines up
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