Robin Whenary

Cinematographer, Director

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My Details

 

Male
Great Britain , South West

Current Work Details

What I do

I've made award-winning short films of my own and shot other people's. Currently an MA Cinematography student at the National Film & TV School, with ambitions to make and shoot bigger and better things.

Company

Shippon Films

Where I work

I am just me

Technical Skills

Canon 5D mk2; 7D; Sony EX1/Z1; Panasonic 151; many Mini-DV models; 35mm lens adaptors; Super 16mm (Arri SR3; Aaton XTR Prod); still photography; editing with Final Cut & Premiere.

Resources / Expertise

Cinematography, camera operating, directing / making short films (screened internationally; won awards, including for camerawork and sound); have also served as camera assistant, production assistant or stills photographer.

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Training

2000-2002

Exeter College,
A-Level Practical Film and Video , A (100% marks)

2003-2006

Exeter University,
BA Ancient History, First Class (& Dean's Commendation)

2010-2011

National Film & Television School,
MA Cinematography, (Bahamas Scholarship)

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Films I wish I had made

Vertigo, Rear Window, Great Expectations (1946), The General (1926), Odd Man Out, The Red Shoes, Barry Lyndon, My Darling Clementine, Battleship Potemkin, Tokyo Story, Paris,Texas, Once Upon a Time in the West, Kundun... to name a few... also several Laurel & Hardy two-reelers

I left the cinema during

Don't think I've ever walked out during a film - I pick the films I go to see carefully, and even if it turns out to be not that great, I'd probably see it through to the end.

Directors I love

Hitchcock, Kubrick, Lean, Ford, Kurosawa, Renoir, Powell, Leone, Eisenstein, Scorsese, Chaplin, Keaton, Tati, Wilder... and many others.

Shooting People stuff

Joined

8/12/2008

Recent Bulletin Posts

19/8/2009   Re: Shooting With Mobile Phone Cameras
10/8/2009   Wwoofing
12/7/2009   Motion - off the shelf and ready for watching

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