DON BURGESS - Cinematographer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 92 - DON BURGESS - CINEMATOGRAPHER

On this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with cinematographer Don Burgess (AQUAMAN, CONTACT, FORREST GUMP). Always the outdoorsman, Don spent much of his youth and young adulthood filming sports movies and learning the ropes while hanging off them on the side of a mountain. We learn how he fell in with director Robert Zemeckis in a pivotal meeting to shoot FORREST GUMP and how they typically prepare and work together through production. We also discuss Don’s night work on CAST AWAY and the difficulties of working on a tropical island. We reflect on deriving strength from longtime crew members, and Don reveals how, after the introduction of film incentives, he’s since developed local crews around the world. Later, Don gives us a recent example of when he was able to remotely DP a shot across the Pacific Ocean with his trusted New Zealand crew. Among his many illustrious credits, Don can also boast of surviving the 2nd unit on the arduous production of director William Friedkin’s SORCERER.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us,
0:16.0	so listen in and see where it goes.
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1:15.0	Today we're speaking with a cinematographer.
1:21.0	His credits are many and include Forrest Gump, castaway, Allied, and Aquaman.
1:26.6	We're pleased to welcome Don Burgess with us today.
1:29.3	Hey Don, thank you for doing this.
1:31.3	Oh, this is great.
1:33.0	I enjoy this.
1:34.0	This is, you know, sitting down with the two of you
1:37.0	is, there's a lot of history here between us.
1:40.0	Yeah, it's true.
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