The Cinematography Podcast

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Wesley Wang on building a studio for the internet generation

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Director Wesley Wang on building Wesley Wang Media, an indie studio incubator for online creators, launching a $100K open contest, and staying a filmmaker himself. Podca

Sep 18

Special Episode: Remembering Rodney Charters, ASC, CSC, NZSC

Remembering cinematographer Rodney Charters, ASC, dp of 24, Sleepwalkers, and much more in this classic Cinepod conversation on craft, career, and lighting.

Sep 18

DP Brett Pawlak’s vision for Spider-Man: Brand New Day

DP Brett Pawlak on grounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day in natural light, practical suit design, and 17 years collaborating with Destin Cretton. Podcast highlights includ

Sep 4
1 h 11 min

Building a nearly silent crime drama in Motor City

Cinematographer John Matysiak on shooting Motor City's nearly dialogue-free story, real in-camera stunts, and building its 1970s Detroit look from film tests. Podcast hi

Aug 28
1 h 11 min

Bringing indie instincts to Voicemails for Isabelle

DP Julia Swain on faking the Golden Gate Bridge, rigging a real tour bus, and bringing indie instincts to Netflix's Voicemails for Isabelle Podcast highlights include:

Aug 22
1 h 11 min

Michael Bauman on building horror for Monster: The Ed Gein Story

DP Michael Bauman, ASC on shooting Monster: The Ed Gein Story, building a visual language with period lenses, and lighting with just reflectors and flashlights. Podcast

Aug 14
1 h 11 min

Shooting mud, fog and firelight in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

DOP Gustav Danielsson, FSF on shooting HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with naturalistic firelight, practical battlefield fog, and in-camera POV shots Podcast highl

Aug 7
1 h 11 min

Matt Ball on shooting in remote regions for Tucci in Italy

DP Matt Ball on shooting Tucci in Italy Season 2, the challenges of journeying to remote regions over tourist spots, and capturing emotional moments on camera. Podcast h

Jul 31
1 h 11 min

Eben Bolter, ASC, BSC reimagines a noir classic in Cape Fear

DP Eben Bolter, ASC, BSC breaks down the watery, noir lighting, anamorphic lenses, and practical tricks behind Apple TV's Cape Fear. Podcast highlights include: -How Eb

Jul 17
1 h 11 min

Lyle Vincent on lighting the darkness of The Beast in Me

Cinematographer Lyle Vincent on shooting the Netflix series The Beast in Me with Panavision lenses and hard lighting that allow deep shadows to fall into black. Vincent's

Jul 11
1 h 11 min

Christian Sprenger on building the horror-comedy Widow’s Bay

Christian Sprenger, ASC on balancing horror and comedy in Widow's Bay with lighting, practical effects, and years of trust built with producer Hiro Murai. Podcast highli

Jul 1
1 h 11 min

Peter Konczal, ASC on Black Rabbit’s raw, low-contrast look

Peter Konczal, ASC on Black Rabbit's deliberately low-tech-analog toolkit, customized blue bounce light, and the gradual unraveling of its visual style episode by episode

Jun 20
1 h 11 min

Suburban street photography and voyeurism in DTF St. Louis

DP James Whitaker, ASC breaks down the look of HBO's DTF St. Louis: street photographs, a brutalist style police station, and inobtrusively lighting intimacy. Podcast hi

Jun 17
1 h 11 min

Smoke, spotlights, Silicon Valley secrets in The Audacity

The Audacity DP Richard Rutkowski, ASC made Vancouver look like Palo Alto, used lens filters instead of special effects to create wildfires, and dramatized the themes of

Jun 13
1 h 11 min

Bonus Episode: Peter Deming, ASC

Peter Deming, ASC on shooting Evil Dead 2 with director Sam Raimi and working with director David Lynch on Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Twin Peaks. Find Peter De

Jun 5
1 h 11 min

Shooting in the dark: the making of Spider Noir

Cinematographers Darren Tiernan, ISC and Peter Deming, ASC are the DPs of Spider Noir, the new MGM Plus and Amazon Prime series starring Nicolas Cage as the hard-boiled 1

Jun 5
1 h 11 min

James Laxton, ASC Frames Class and Generation Gaps in Beef 2

James Laxton, ASC is the Academy Award nominated cinematographer of Moonlight. His latest project is Season 2 of Beef, the acclaimed Netflix series created by Lee Sung Ji

May 29
1 h 11 min

Evoking dread in Something Very Bad is Going to Happen

Krzysztof Trojnar is the cinematographer of the Netflix series, Something Very Bad is Going to Happen. It’s a genuinely unsettling horror show about a woman whose anxiety

May 23
1 h 11 min

Lawrence Sher ASC: filming Apex in the Australian wilderness

Lawrence Sher, ASC, is the cinematographer of Apex, the action thriller currently sitting at number one on Netflix. Apex stars Charlize Theron as a woman hunted through t

May 15
1 h 11 min

Tari Segal, ASC: visual magic in Margo’s Got Money Troubles

Margo's Got Money Troubles DP Tari Segal, ASC approached the show with spontaneity, intimacy, and a creative way to bring static backdrops to life. Margo's Got Money Trou

May 9
1 h 11 min

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#30 ▲ 19 Film Interviews US

What listeners say

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The hosts never fail to keep the conversation with their guests informative without getting too technically dry.

hapadave · Dec 2024

I’m not in the industry at all. Just a movie dork and love all aspects especially how movies “look.” Anyway, always interesting guests and love when they get “inside baseball” about the creative process, lenses, and the rants! Thanks guys

GreenRoller21 · Oct 2022

as a young, aspiring filmmaker (cringe) this is such a useful podcast, full of wonderful information, insight, and personality! the hosts are great at asking questions that illicit useful answers for the listeners, and I always finish a listen feeling inspired and motivated to keep grinding and make something of my own.

camillaalmond · Dec 2020

A great companion to the experience of working as an AC or Cam Op for a seasoned DP. On set, you mostly get to observe their physical approach to the craft with possibly a little insight into their thought process. This podcast is great because it gives you the other side of that coin: emphasizing the decision making and problem solving that are just as (if not more) important than the physical execution of the craft itself.

Wes Knapp · Sep 2020

This podcast is not for you if you work in the industry and want meaningful, reasonably deep conversations. These guys are hard to listen to. I don’t know why they called this “the cinematography podcast” when neither of them are cinematographers or even have a reasonable knowledge of the craft to begin with. If you want to listen to two dudes talk about random current events for 15 minutes before bringing the guest in, go for it. The interviews have basically no depth and sometimes don’t go much past “how did this project come to you” or “how did you get started in the industry”. There are many better cinematography podcasts out there if you want to actually learn something, like Cinemapodgrapher or Cinematographers on the Loose.

Kfal · Feb 2023

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