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MillimeterFade to Black: R.J. Cutler, Director/Producer
Feb 25, 2009 12:00 PM, By Michael Goldman
Nothing here will look like 16mm film, and it would have been great to shoot 16mm for this movie. But I filmed over 300 hours of tape for it, which I had to do given the nature of the environment we were shooting in,” Cutler says. “… The truth is, we can shoot a lot more this way. It's a different look, but a thrilling look. For something in this kind of environment, HD is a much better medium.”
In terms of his transition back into filmmaker after churning out so much TV programming in recent years, Cutler says he considers TV a “muscle-building experience” that prepared him for the grueling job of piecing together The September Issue.
“The principal relationship is in postproduction — the ability to process a story and [spend thousands of hours] in terms of editing and postproduction and output, as I have done over the years,” he says. “We've done maybe 15 to 20 TV series, hundreds of episodes, so my editorial muscles are pretty developed now, as opposed to if I was only making a movie every two to three years, with two years passing between my stints in an edit bay. Now, I'm in an edit bay every day, every night, every week.”
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