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Meet Your Master is an online education platform where you can learn from specialists in their field through various...
“Meet Your Master is an online education platform where you can learn from specialists in their field through various online courses. In the process you discover a lot about the career of the various masters. Further they share their expertise with lots of tips and tricks. So far, courses with singer Jonas Kaufmann, actors Til Schweiger and Heiner Lauterbach, adventurer Reinhold Messner, author Sebastian Fitzek and many more are readily available.”
Lens/Camera Information
Lens series: Cooke S4/i
Focus lengths: 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, 135mm
Other lenses: Angenieux Optimo Rouge 16-42mm, 45-120mm
Original Aspect Ratio: 1,77:1
Cameras: Arri Alexa Mini & 2x Arri Amira
Format: Digital
Rental Company: Videolink https://www.videolink.de
Director of Photography: Alexander Hackinger http://alexanderhackinger.com/
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/alexanderhackinger
Instagram: http://instagram.com/alexanderhackinger/
Production Information
Production: Meet Your Master
Producer: Martin Wolff
Director: Renato Novakovic
Colourist: Thomas Hanser
Production Company: Wolff Brothers https://www.wolff-brothers.de
Post Production Company: Das Werk http://daswerk.de
DOP Alexander Hackinger on his lighting and lens choices:
“At Meet Your Master we always have the challenge that we have people in front of the camera, who have been in the public eye for a long time. They naturally want to look their best on camera. As we work with a lot of contrast in the face, it is even more important that the optics create beautiful skin tones. A big soft keylight, some negative fill and the Cooke S4, that’s it! During the trailer pictures we often have 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. From the experience of many shoots with the Cooke S4, I knew where to push the optics. Whether the project involved me setting a beauty-lit portrait light, shooting on top of a mountain or descending into a cave, I knew I would generate the image I expected with the Cooke S4. In post-production we then only added a little extra contrast and balanced the colours.”
