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October 26, 2005
Inside his Bubble: Soderbergh's lo-fi process
Steven Soderbergh talks production process with the Independent's Nicola Christie as Bubble debuts at the London Film Festival. She notes that he takes on as many roles as he can, especially as his own DoP: "There are many cinematographers who are much better than I am, but it would be very difficult for me now to step back and insert another person between me and the image," he says... With Bubble, Soderbergh also edited at the end of each day. "We had the footage in my hotel room, on my computer, so we'd watch what we shot that day. I could edit scenes and then go out and shoot it differently the next day. It was amazing."
Soderbergh, she writes, belives that digital technology will allow a filmmaker like himself to cut the studios out of the game. "You'll see [name] film-makers self-distributing their own films. That's where this is going to go. If I can go to the bank and get money to make the movie, and in 2 to 4 years' time the digital changeover has happened in the US and all the theatres are digitally projecting, I'll just go right to the theatres and make a deal with them. I'm certainly going to pursue that... You can work so quickly with these cameras; they're lighter, more portable. The time between having an idea and seeing it expressed has collapsed, and that's great."
Posted by pride at October 26, 2005 01:08 PM
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