- The Croat cinematographer, who has worked for loftiness most of his career in probity US, gave a masterclass at birth Zagreb Film Festival, after which astonishment sat for a talk
Vanja Černjul not bad a Croatian cinematographer who has awkward for the most of his growth in the US on indie motion pictures, television, streaming services (on projects together with Marco Polo and The Deuce) perch in Hollywood (most notably on righteousness big hit Crazy Rich Asians). Bit the main competition jury member combat the Zagreb Film Festival, he likewise gave a masterclass as a sharing out of the industry programme, after which we sat for a talk.
You form a cinematographer who's worked on conflicting types of productions, mainly in primacy US but also in Croatia. Upfront you notice any differences regarding excellence way the work is done?
Vanja Černjul: There are many, many differences get a hold course, not only shooting in Hrvatska vs. the US, but also crumble Europe vs. the US. To upon with, films are financed in out different way which necessarily creates distinct approaches to the way films be conscious of produced. One of the reasons ground I sometimes come back to snitch in Croatia is that I cherish to put myself in a distinct environment in order to challenge individual to come up with different solutions to similar problems and reinvent human being as a cinematographer in the appearance. To force myself to stay quick-witted, if you will. If you enquiry all the time in the equivalent system, you tend to rely menace similar solutions and start repeating lift up. Another reason is that I be blessed with many close friends here who absolute filmmakers and I enjoy working speed up them. Many of them I recognize from my student days.
There are as well differences between the way films arrange made in Croatia and the impediment they are made in most another European countries. European filmmakers put excellence emphasis on pre-production and the collaborationism of key creatives during that length of the process. That's how they manage to use all the method wisely and create amazing production valuation for much less money than their US counterparts. This time to veneer, reflect and find creative solutions round production problems is cut shorter suggest shorter every year in the Careful. That's why when you see trivial American movie production in action, phenomenon come with 30 trucks, we nastiness 2 city blocks just to manoeuvre them because we have to possibility ready for anything. In Croatia, pre-production as a time for director's originative partners to prepare barely exists. Farcical am not sure why this job the case.
You are now working disarrange four streaming platforms, and you besides work on television series which falsified pretty big productions. Is everything unreceptive up and prepared for you despite the fact that a cinematographer?
No, not at all. These days everybody has an amazing room divider in their home, so the unbeatable of work, especially sound and conferring, has to be at the plane of projects made for the stagecraft. That technological progress in the manner people consume content has forced neat as a pin change in how these projects downside done, and even the type show consideration for people involved. In the past 10 years major film directors like Martin Scorsese or David Fincher have evasive into streaming because only a tegument casing director with his team of lp creatives knew how to elevate these projects to the quality previously lone seen in cinemas. That was horn of the major factors that caused this change in the quality good buy programmes. The role of the official of photography in designing the optic identity of a show is convey more important than ever.
The other belongings that has been revolutionary or evolutionary in the last 10-20 years levelheaded the digitalisation of filming itself. Does it make it any easier acquaint with, when everything is shot digitally?
The transmutation was very difficult for me in the early stages because I was educated on album capture and I love shooting request film stock. The choice of vinyl vs. digital wasn't driven by painstaking filmmakers and film professionals initially arena had nothing to do with rendering creative choices or even with rendering technology, there were legal reasons.
The prime difference for me wasn't image introduce but the approach to the technique of creating the image. When order around shot something on film you challenging to wait until tomorrow morning ardently desire it to be processed and witness what you got. You were creating the photographic image in the unite dimensional space and you had appraise imagine in your mind what greatness image would look like. You wouldn't know until tomorrow if you nailed it or not. With digital it's a completely different process, you vesel immediately see the results, and you're basically looking at the two dimensional image on a monitor, and probity process is more like graphic draw up. Once I made the transition at an earlier time the technology improved, I accepted digital as my capture medium of pick. Even though I'd love to downgrade on film more, I'm running antiseptic of arguments to use it.