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Letter From the President
ABOVE PHOTO BY
MICHAEL M. PESSAH, ASC.
WE DEVOTE THIS ISSUE to the production of television. " TV " is ubiquitous these days. Whether on " mobile devices " or
flat screens on our walls, there are lots of ways to watch TV. And plenty of programs are in production - something like
500, currently. TV is so commonplace that defining TV for this issue is a bit like what Supreme Court Justice Potter Stuart
said about pornography: " I know it when I see it. "
If not defined by where it is shown, TV is defined by the characteristics of production: an hour of screen time takes
about seven to 10 production days, on average - with exceptions. Some half-hour single-camera TV productions have
about eight days to shoot. Page count for those days is different from feature productions, of course. Features may shoot
three pages a day (more or less) while TV shoots about eight. Reflecting this, the annual ASC Awards ceremony has four
different categories to accommodate the wide range of TV production.
In just one category this year, Half-Hour Series for Television, the extremes went from the quiet elegance of the HBO
show Insecure, shot by Ava Berkofsky, to the action razzle-dazzle of the Star Wars offspring The Mandalorian, for which
Baz Idoine won our award.
Television production and viewing have been bright spots during the pandemic, as both continued without significant
interruption. However, as we recover from the pandemic, the devastating health and economic effects are apparent. In
the world of film production, the body on the gurney is that of film theaters. Particularly small cinema chains will not be
able to stay open. In the Los Angeles area, the loss of the Arclight Cinema theaters is hard to accept, as the chain had
stadium-style seating, high-quality projection and, best of all, its policy that latecomers were not allowed in the theater
after the movie started.
We all have to soldier on, without loved ones who have died. We also soldier on in production - less for the large
screen, these days, and more and more for the little screen. Okay, we soldier on for the small screen and the occasional
large-screen viewing.
Stephen Lighthill
President, ASC
8 / JULY 2021

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