Guest: Tristan Oliver/Cinematographer /ParaNorman

A cinematographer for 24 years, it has been animation that has defined his work. His long collaboration with director Nick Park includes Academy award winners, ‘Wrong Trousers’, ‘A Close Shave’ and ‘Curse of the Wererabbit’. His work with other directors has produced BAFTA winners ‘Stage Fright’ and ‘The Big Story’ as well as the popular feature films ‘Chicken Run’ and the Academy award nominated, ‘The Fantastic Mr Fox’ Tristan is just completing principal photography on ‘ParaNorman’ a 3D stop frame feature for Laika studios. In the field of commercials, Tristan likes to work across the media and has filmed a number of significant live action/animation mix campaigns most notably for Sony, Becks, Tesco and Tennants. A long time member of BAFTA, Tristan has sat on the Film and Children’s committees with responsibility for children’s and family film. He has chaired the animation category awards’ jury on a number of occasions. Tristan is a graduate of the University of Bristol and Bristol Film School. His early success in winning the BP Kodak and Fuji Student Cinematography prizes led to a short period at the Moscow film school before moving into the world of pop promos and commercials which launched his career.You can email your questions to 123filmeasy@gmail.com Link: www.123FilmEasy.com. Follow us on Twitter @123Film