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Director Scott Sacco joins Dylan Hahn to break down his Outdoor Research film Moments, a five-day shoot across British Columbia built with small crews, lightweight rigs, and a practical approach to getting cinematic images in remote locations. Scott shares how he balances directing, shooting, and editing his own work, how improvised rigs help create dynamic shots, and why flexibility in the field often leads to stronger ideas. They talk ultrawide lenses, POV camera setups, location strategy, shaping natural performances, and the ongoing challenge of making resourceful productions feel bigger than they are.

▶ Find Inspiration and develop your ideas with Frame Set:https://go.frameset.app/4v2Bn8H▶ About This Episode:Director Oscar Hudson joins Dylan Hahn to break down his Coinbase campaign created for the Oscars, a project that builds a believable video game world almost entirely through practical techniques. Oscar explains how the team translated digital logic into physical design using printed textures, flattened costumes, miniature environments, and carefully controlled camera movement to create an uncanny game-like reality in camera. They discuss the isometric camera language, materials testing process, choreography inspired by NPC movement, and how simple physical solutions helped achieve complex visual ideas without relying heavily on CG.

▶ Find Inspiration and develop your ideas with Frame Set:https://go.frameset.app/4c1YKHR▶ About This Episode:Cinematographer Cyan Mariani joins Dylan Hahn to break down the bold black-and-white music video that’s been gaining attention online. Cyan shares how he created striking contrast with minimal lighting setups, balanced hard and soft sources through a single window, and unified footage from four different cameras using film scans. They also get into working fast with limited resources, adapting when locations fell through, and how constraints helped shape the final look of the piece.

▶ Find Inspiration and develop your ideas with Frame Set:https://go.frameset.app/478c22O▶ About This Episode:Cinematographer Patrick Pickler joins Dylan Hahn to break down his North Face commercial, shot high up in the mountains on glaciers near France. They go shot-by-shot through the film, explaining what was actually filmed on location versus what was built later in a studio. Patrick shares how they carried full camera setups up the mountain, shot on 35mm in extreme weather, and used tools like thermal cameras, miniatures, and motion control to pull off specific shots, all in pursuit of images that could only exist somewhere between the real world and something imagined.

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▶ About This Episode:Cinematographer Rowan Biddiscombe and Dylan Hahn break down the viral shot from his latest commercial for Ardbeg Whiskey. They reveal the unconventional lens, Steadicam work, and blend of practical effects and VFX that brought the image to life. Rowan shares how the team tackled shooting in remote natural locations with a small crew, the meticulous prep behind technically ambitious shots, and the tiny details filmmakers obsess over but audiences rarely notice. It’s a conversation about craft, problem solving, and why showing the real process behind an image matters more than ever in an era where viewers increasingly assume everything is AI.

▶ Find Inspiration and develop your ideas with Frame Set:https://go.frameset.app/3N30Du9▶ About This Episode:Director Salomon Ligthelm joins Dylan Hahn to break down his Super Bowl campaign for He Gets Us — and the 64-page treatment that won him the job. Solomon shares how he approached five distinct films in one ambitious shoot, discovered the campaign’s linchpin in vintage consumerist audio, and built clear creative rule sets to navigate scale, faith, excess, and restraint. It’s a conversation about protecting set culture, analog craft in an AI world, and why cool imagery isn’t enough if it doesn’t move you.

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▶ About This Episode:DP Mason Charles joins Dylan Hahn to break down how he and director Nick Nelson built a surreal, black-and-white fever dream around an unexpected tool: an Xbox Kinect. The depth-scan “nanoparticle” look became the backbone of the project, layered with black-void builds, 3fps Alexa textures, drone-mounted lighting, underwater housings, and tightly integrated VFX. They talk experimentation, collaboration, and what it feels like to step into the title of cinematographer while still early in the journey, chasing bold ideas and sharpening your voice with every project.

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Directors Folkert Verdoorn and Simon Becks join Dylan Hahn to break down the chaotic, cartoon-fueled world of A$AP Rocky’s “PUNK ROCKY” music video. From fake suburban backlots and prosthetic eyes that sing, to breaking windows and car crashes they unpack collaborating with Rocky as a third director, casting wildly exaggerated characters (including Winona Ryder), pulling off ambitious long takes under pressure, all in the pursuit of building a fully realized world that runs on its own strange logic.

▶ Find Inspiration and develop your ideas with Frame Set:https://go.frameset.app/4q1EJoA▶ About This Episode:Cinematographer Morgan Spencer joins Dylan Hahn to break down the making of a high-concept commercial built around Apple Vision Pro, Formula One, and Boss Clothing. They dive into lighting a minimal set for maximum scale, balancing CG with in-camera effects, and designing custom tools to create motion, texture, and intensity. From phantom slow-motion experiments to analog video feedback loops, this episode is a look at how intentional technical choices can turn a small shoot into something bigger.

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Cinematographer Oren Soffer joins Dylan Hahn to break down the first narrative project shot on Fujifilm’s new GFX Eterna 55. Instead of showcasing the camera's abilities in ideal conditions, the team embraced harsh light, tight spaces, minimal crew, and a production pipeline designed to truly stress-test the camera. They dive into large sensor techniques, lens coverage, mixing spherical and anamorphic formats, shaping light through subtraction, and how a 70mm close-up can feel both intimate and epic. Along the way, Oren shares his philosophy on lens testing, working fast without losing control, and why, despite all the tech, cameras themselves might be the most overrated part of filmmaking.