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Cooke S4/i lenses transform Meet Your Master online expert interviews into intimate conversations

09/06/2021

Cooke S4/i lenses transform Meet Your Master online expert interviews into intimate conversations

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Brie Clayton June 9, 2021

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Director of Photography Alexander Hackinger has brought a cinematic yet intimate ambience to the Meet Your Master German series of inspirational and entertaining online courses with the use of Cooke S4/i prime lenses and ARRI AmiraandAlexa Mini cameras.

Produced by Wolff Brothers, Meet Your Master is an online education platform enabling viewers to sign up to learn from specialists in their fields. Current masters include adventurer Reinhold Messner, singer Jonas Kaufmann, actor Til Schweiger, and author Sebastian Fitzek.

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Although it is an online format, it was always important for us to create an exciting image with high production values, said Hackinger. Meet your Master should feel like you are sitting at a table with the Master in a personal conversation. We needed to immediately establish a connection to the Master in their particular environment. We also wanted to achieve a form of recognition in the pictures we generated for marketing, so that every time the viewer sees a trailer, he already knows from the images: that's Meet Your Master.

Hackinger and Novakovic came up with a high-contrast look with an Alexa Mini and an Amira camera shooting from the front of the Master and an Amira moving camera from the profile. They worked out a guideline of what images were needed for each film, and adapted that to each Master and each location.

For example, as Reinhold Messner is associated with snow and mountains, it made sense to place him in that environment, and I always had to think of crystal colours, explained Hackinger, while for his interior shots we worked towards a warmer direction to convey the atmosphere of wood, forests and the cosiness of a mountain hut.

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For Meet Your Master we had people in front of the camera who have been in the public eye for a long time and they naturally want to look their best on camera, he added. As we work with a lot of contrast in the face, it was even more important that the optics created beautiful skin tones. A big soft keylight, some negative fill and the Cooke S4/i's, and that was it! During the trailer pictures we often had to work very fast and I had to deal with difficult lighting conditions. It was then all the more important to have a tool at hand that I could trust.

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