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Jon Fauer’s interviews with 110 prominent cinematographers provides a modern look at the craft.

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Cinematographer Style is an 84-minute documentary, directed by Jon Fauer, ASC,with 110 prominent cinematographers discussing style, technique, technology, and why films look the way they do.

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Cinematographer Style Volume 1, features 55 uncut transcripts of the interviews conducted during the making of the award-winning documentary. With Gordon Willis, ASC.

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Cinematographer Style Volume 2 continues with the remaining 55 complete, uncut, original transcripts of the interviews, including Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC.

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Jon Fauer’s Film and Digital Times reveals the nuts and bolts, how-to and how not to, technique and technology, style and strategies, tips and trends for: 

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Inside-the-industry information for professionals from professionals, written by writers who shoot, direct, light, design, build, edit and work in the business. We talk about products and procedures in practical production—here’s the job at hand: how do we use these tools and techniques to get the results we want?

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"Secrets of the Pros" was coined by Frank DeMarco and Lee Bonner, and is a fitting description of what we do. We are a sporadical, publishing on paper and online roughly every two months. Depending on events, introductions and technological breakthroughs, we sometimes combine issues into larger editions. Join us for the adventure and subscribe online.

 

About Jon Fauer, ASC

Jon Fauer, ASC is an award-winning cinematographer and director who has written 12 bestselling books, famous for their user-friendly way of explaining things as if you’re right there on location with him.

Over 120,000 of his books on  cameras, cinematography, film and digital video have been printed. Think of this bimonthly Journal as Fauer’s next book — arriving a year early, with up-to-the minute information brought to you in episodic format.

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