Roger Deakins on How to Choose a Camera Lens Cinematography Techniques Ep. 8

DP Roger Deakins explains how to choose a camera lens and storytelling with cinematography. Understanding Camera Lenses ►► Download FREE “Camera Lenses“ eBook ►► Special Thanks to: The Team Deakins podcast ►► Kaity and Kally ►► Chapters: Intro - 00:00 Chapter 1: Primes and Zooms - 00:39 Chapter 2: Lensing With Intention - 03:41 Chapter 3: Experimenting With Light - 06:39 Designing the Deakinizer - 07:36 Wrap Up - 09:23 Lens choice is something all filmmakers should take seriously. Each focal length brings a different texture and feeling to a shot, so choosing a lens should be anything but arbitrary. With camera lens choice, the distance between cold and detached vs. warm and intimate is literally millimeters. In this episode of our series on Cinematography Techniques, we give the floor once again to