DEADLIEST CATCH - Arom Starr-Paul & David Reichert

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

Tv & Film, Filmlighting, Deakins, Movies, Filmmaking, Production, Film, Cinematography, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 128 - Deadliest Catch - Arom Starr-Paul & David Reichert

In this special episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we’re talking about one of our favourite shows: DEADLIEST CATCH. Executive producer Arom Starr-Paul and cinematographer David Reichert join us for a lengthy discussion and generously answer our many questions about how the show actually gets made. We first learn how both men made their way to the Bering Sea as camera operators and worked their way into their current roles after many years. Later, Arom shares how the show’s storytelling evolves over the course of a season and how the crew identifies which storylines to follow out at sea. David also highlights the day-to-day responsibilities of the cameramen and women on the boats and reveals how he coordinates the look of the show across the huge fleet of crabbing boats featured in every season, and we learn how they sift through 40,000 hours of footage down to just 20. Roger also compares his fishing strategies with those in the fleet from the show, and we reflect on the ecological changes in the oceans and in the practices of fisheries.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations
0:10.1	between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. We never know where the conversation will take us,
0:16.3	so listen in and see where it goes.
0:28.6	This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a premier manufacturer of LED lighting with the industry's greatest variety of fixtures for your complete lighting needs.
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0:58.5	Today we have something special.
1:01.3	Roger has often mentioned his passion for fishing, so it's not surprising that one of his
1:06.4	favorite shows is the deadliest catch.
1:09.2	We're so pleased to be speaking today to producer Aram Star Paul
1:13.4	and DP David Reichert and to learn more about unscripted filmmaking. Aram and David, thank you for doing
1:21.6	this. This is great. Thanks for having us. What an honor to be part of this. We'd like to start with our usual question, which is, how did you get to where you are today?
1:33.4	Could you ever imagine you're ending up where you are now, and how did it come about?
1:38.0	Did you take another path? What's your story?
1:40.5	Oh, man.
1:41.2	Aram, you start.
1:43.4	Well, no, I could never have imagined I had to end up here. Oddly enough, I, my parents didn't fish or anything like that. My dad made tile for a living. And my mother was a nurse. And so I was as far from this world as you could imagine, far from filmmaking as well.
2:01.7	I always had a passion for movies growing up and, you know, just they were everything to me,
2:07.6	how they, you know, could make you feel in a really short amount of time.
2:12.2	And as I kind of got older and I played sports as well, I kind of at some point realized that that wasn't
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