Graeme Beck : Director of Photography
The Camera Crew
Graeme Beck : Director of Photography
Graeme Beck is a multi award-winning Cinematographer who's experience spans back to ABCTV in Sydney as an Assistant Cameraman on News and Documentaries. He then worked in Queensland making television commercials before moving to Western Australia, where he shot a large number of Corporate and Television Commercials for the Local and Asian markets. Graeme has now returned to Sydney.
CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARDS
New York Film & Video Festival / Best Cinematography: 'Fragments' - Short Drama
ACS Gold Award: 'Whipchecks' - Industrial
ACS Silver Award: 'Bonaire' - TVC
ACS Silver Award: 'Princess Margaret Hospital' - Corporate
ACS Silver Award: 'The Prospectors' - Dramatised Documentary
4 ACS Highly Commended Awards
Portfolio + Equipment list + CV (pdf with photos) + CV (text pdf)
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Ferry Lie - Sound Recordist
AWARDS
Best Commercial & Best Technical Achievement (2007 Indonesian Independent
Commercial Competition)
Nominee for Best Interactive Media Content (2003 UTS Golden Eye Awards)
FEATURE FILMS
Under The Same Sky ("Dibawah Langit Yang Sama")
SHORT FILMS
Sembelance (2008)
Pictures of Anna (2008)
Red Coloured Finger Nails (2007)
Two Billion Desirables (2007)
Broken (2007)
Together Again (2006)
OLD FILM FACTS
The first feature
film (commercially made film over 1 hour in length) was the 1906 Australian
film "The Story of the Kelly Gang."
The largest number of cameras used in a single scene was 48 for the sea battle
in Ben Hur. 42 were employed in the Chariot Race with the operators shooting
53,000 feet of film in a single day.
The shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho involved 70 set ups over seven days
for 45 seconds of edited footage.
The most edited film was Howard Hughes "Hell's Angels" which consumed
2,254,750 feet of film with a continuous running time of 23 days.
The greatest number of known retakes was 342 for the blind flower girl scene
in Chaplin's "City Lights."
Marilyn Monroe did 59 takes in 'Some Like it Hot" in which her only line
was 'Where's the bourbon.'
The most costly news story ever was the Centenary Air Race in Melbourne where
160 frames were transmitted to Britain over 68 hours at a cost of US
$30,000
in 1934. It was shown in 1500 cinemas within 48 hours.
"Jurassic Park" cost $90 million dollars to make and $98 million
dollars was spent in publicity.
The funeral scene in "Gandhi" contained around 300,000 extras, 94,560
contracted and over 200,000 volunteers.
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graeme beck pty ltd
Cinematographers Cameraman Camera Operators Sound Recordists editors - now with Canon 5DMKII Hyper 35mm Cameras for a better look in cinematography.
Contact: Graeme Beck
m: 0411 82 7799
p: (02) 9980 7788
e: graeme @ dop.net.au
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA