Free Fire (2016) Rook Films Director: Ben Wheatley
Cinematographer: Laurie Rose BSC On Set DIT: Harry Bennett-Snewin Digital Lab Operator: Neil Gray
Trust (2017) FX Networks / Director: Danny Boyle Cinematographer: Christopher Ross BSC On Set DIT: Thomas Patrick, Ash Daniyan Digital Dailies Lab Operators: Jerome Smith, Julia Roestel, Ram Tripathi , Josh Unwin
Mary Queen of Scots (2018) Focus Features, Working Title Films Director: Josie Rourke / Cinematographer: John Mathieson CAL, BSC, Angus Hudson BSC On Set DIT: Alex Golding Data Manager: Nick Everett
Supporting the Cinematographer
As long as I can remember I’ve been passionate about photography; about the finished image that supports the script, that supports the story.
I wanted to work in narrative as a cinematographer and when I moved to the UK worked in a camera department. I was taking a lot of stills, made the move to digital and started using Adobe Lightroom to edit my pictures. I made some changes to my photos within the application and later accidentally deleted the XML file. All of my changes had gone. And then when I found the XML file and reapplied it, all my changes came back. I was blown away by the concept of non-destructive editing of my photos.
Mark Purvis, Managing Director
That early experience with Lightroom in 2008 gave me an understanding of the power of XML - of metadata - and the creative freedom that can bring
to the artist by bringing non-destructive manipulation as an attribute to your camera negative. It was the start of the journey that leads me to the present day.
Fast forward to the release of the Red camera and Red Cine and the idea of digital file-based tools being applied to cinematography. I took one of the first jobs as a DIT on Misfits and worked on both seasons, learning by trial from the first. And that coincided with the iPad launch and putting rushes in the cloud before the term ‘the cloud’ was widely used.
“The idea of what can be achieved as a community remains a core value for the business.”
Having a Backup
Dave Robinson Account Manager, ccktech “I’ve known Mark and Tom from the very early days of what was then Mission Digital. It’s an enduring relationship and I see them both as close business friends. One of our specialisms at ccktech is our knowledge of media and transit drives for backup, which sits well with Mission. Tom and I have worked through and tested the full range of G-Technology [now Sandisk Professional] products over the years from the silver
G-Drives and G-Raids, the exceptional Shuttle built for on set work, and more recently the super-fast Mobile and Mobile Pro SSD range and biometrically encrypted ArmorLock transit drives. On every occasion Tom has ‘torture tested’ the drives to see if they are fit for purpose and the range has always delivered.
“Working with Tom and Mark has been one of my professional highlights; watching the business develop over the years and feeling part of that success story. We’ve helped them implement
their LTO infrastructure with Spectra Logic libraries as well as help specify their Digital Labs. Most recently we’ve been the primary supplier and consultant for the new facility at Shepperton Studios. Our involvement has encompassed a full audit & test of the existing infrastructure through to a full scope of work and being closely involved in many elements of the design & build of the new dailies facility.”
Tom Mitchell, Technical Director, Mission “Protecting and archiving data is a vital component of what we do. We have had multiple petabytes of raw camera data passing through Mission over the years and backing this up and archiving requires a reliable and
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