TURNING THE TABLES - "Our Partnership"

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 105 - Turning the Tables: “Our Partnership” - with Rick Carter

Production designer Rick Carter (Season 2, Episode 95) returns to the Team Deakins Podcast for a special episode in which Rick turns the tables, and his questions, towards us. The focus of his questioning? Our partnership as Team Deakins. Rick mines the origins of our relationship and helps illuminate why Team Deakins works as well as it does, and we discuss how, as storytellers, we collaborate with one another and our fellow crew members to help visualize a film. James shares how she leverages her addiction to solving problems as an asset for the crew, and Roger reflects on how his total trust in James enables him to be in two places at once. Rick later steers the conversation towards the intuitive aspects of filmmaking, and we discuss the importance of keeping one’s head straight during a shoot. Rick also expands the scope of our discussion to include the entire production, and we reflect on the magical energy of a crew working together in service of a clear vision as a unified creative unit. Towards the end, we also discuss the nature of the podcast as a means of communication, and we marvel at the fact that we’ve yet to actually meet Rick in person.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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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.
0:19.0	This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a global company pioneering LED lighting technology for cinema with cutting edge hardware and software solutions.
0:33.2	Recently, Aperture expanded its lighting ecosystem
0:36.6	with the new Infinomat series of mat lights.
0:39.8	They offer unmatched output, IP65 weatherproofing, and full pixel control over DMX.
0:47.0	Discover more about the Infinemats and Aperture's lighting ecosystem at Aperture.com.
0:55.0	Today we're doing something different.
1:00.0	It's a Turning the Tables episode with production designer Rick Carter asking us the questions.
1:06.8	We don't know what to expect, but Rick we turn it over to you.
1:10.8	What are we going to talk about? Well first I just have to acknowledge that it
1:17.7	really is a great honor to to get to interview you. It really is because I not only admire the work, I am really fascinated
1:30.0	by your partnership.
1:32.7	And I was so aware when you were interviewing me of the dynamic between the two of you and for
1:41.5	me anyway, how easy it made it for me to express myself in a
1:47.4	dimensional way and so the questions that I have and I'm sure we'll jump off from those questions into numerous places
1:56.0	and levels, but I think we'll always want to revolve around the idea that we really are talking to a team of two people, the two of you, James and Roger, who have come together not only in your work professionally that you do on the movies that you work on, but also
2:16.6	that as a partnership, there's I think numerous conversations that have led to all this collaboration.
2:25.8	And I think that that's the part that I'm not just interested in,
2:31.0	I'm hoping that there's a way that interning the tables, some of that comes out,
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