From the course: Creative Inspirations: Douglas Kirkland, Photographer

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Stills for Movies

Stills for Movies

(Music playing.) Douglas Kirkland: I'm sometimes asked how I got started in photography of movies, shooting movies. And it's an interesting thing because I always was fascinated by movies, but didn't expect I would ever work around them. It was always the distant Hollywood and that was always a very exciting idea to be on a film set. Now, I got started working with different people at Look Magazine and I shot many films. I've worked, by the way, on we figure more than 160 movies. That's a lot of movies. Now, how do I work on a movie? Well, to begin with, I don't shoot stills through the film as a still photographer. I work on what they called special photography, or I'm working for a publication. I've done books on movies such as James Cameron's Titanic and other films and I've worked on a lot of movies. But in any case, I usually start by reading the script and understanding the story and determining what the most important shots would be in the film. Some of those are done as a…

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