Art & Business Make Strange Bedfellows

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This is not a pleasant tale for me to tell. Ironically, I feel a little of the victim's guilt about the incident. I feel there must have been something I could have done to prevent it, but to tell the truth, I don't even know how to prevent it from happening again, to me or to any cinematographers who may be reading this, which is the reason I have chosen to publicly discuss the incident.

I was engaged to photograph a network M.O.W. Over the years, I've developed a few techniques to ensure quality tape dailies. I dictate copious notes into a cassette that is sent to the telecine timer daily. I shoot a color chart and gray scale, often through correcting colors, for each lighting …