Adam Kimmel recently Engaged in a Master Class in Cinematography, under Professor Dejan Georgevich in the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York .
The class is generally one session lasting for about 3 hours. Kimmel, who has participated in this class previously, chose to reveal students, sections of two movies that he shot,”Capote” and”Never Let Me Go.” Both clips were out of the next acts of the movies. He explained the choices that he had to make and he left them, and then provided details regarding the factors that helped him arrive in those decisions.
In”Never Let Me Go,” Kimmel explains that there was a sequence where one of the main characters discovers that the one thing he believed was keeping him alive, is not true. “He is destined to die soon and die young,” clarified Kimmel. It was as a night scene which happened out on a country road, where he is a passenger in a car. He asks the driver to pull over, gets out, and completely breaks down on the side of the street. According to Kimmel, the struggle, both creatively and financially, was light a state road that’s in complete darkness.
“This would have required a great deal of costly equipment, so I suggested to the manager, then to the producers, to shoot the scene in that last little piece of dusk, when you can truly feel the day is gone but it’s not totally dark yet.” It might require that Kimmel and the team operate with precision, and do all of the work in a brief window of light. “I knew it’d save on coststime, so long as we can pull it off.”
As the cinematographer Adam needed to convince the manager and producers that shooting would include something fleeting to the spectacle, and be very strong, even though they would need to work fast. They consented, and discussed what they would have to have it done. The plan was discussed with the actors, and Kimmel broke and planned every shot with the Assistant Director to make sure they’d have everything they needed, for every single shot.
In the long run, according to Kimmel, the spectacle worked really well and he considers the way it was taken put the perfect tone for a profound performance by Andrew Garfield. “This is a great case for pupils to see,” he explained afterwards. “It shows them various factors and choices come into play, prior to shooting, and because you shoot.”
According to Kimmel, the scenes that he emphasized in the Master Class at Cinematography shows to students the real life challenges a cinematographer faces. “I hope that it has given them some insight to how they can apply their imagination when they eventually work as cinematographers.”
As DP, he’s also assisted supervisors and producers as they tell their tales, lending his artistic and technical expertise in lighting, camera operation, and film stock options.
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