The cinema5D Virtual Show is not all about new gear and pieces of equipment, but also about incredible filmmakers and technicians sharing their experience. We had the opportunity to catch up with the English documentary Director of Photography Ben Sherlock to talk about his evolving filming career starting as a wedding filmmaker and all the way to present time when working as a documentary filmmaker for the BBC’s on “Sacred Wonders”. In this interview, we cover his work on episode “The extraordinary final test to become a Shaolin Master”. The happy days of wedding filmmaking. Image credit: Ben Sherlock From Wedding Filmmaking to the Iraqi Conflict Zone Ben Sherlock is a 31 years old English Director of Photography that started his journey as a wedding filmmaker. For four years, he perfected his craft but also worked on independent documentaries. Then, one day together with his colleague and friend Anthony Jarman, they finally got a permission to film an artist who specialised in painting in war zones, Ben describes the occasion in his own words: We struck gold: an incredibly talented artist who specialised in painting in war zones. It took us three years but eventually we convinced him, and the US military to let us go out to Iraq and document the Iraq conflict, so in 2011 we were embedded with the US armed forces in Iraq. That project marked a massive shift in my carrear, all of us knew we wouldn’t go back to our normal lives and would pursue adventure...
Published By: CineD - Saturday, 25 April, 2020