Lighting Cameraman and Editor
Lighting cameraman / DoP and editor Thorsten Joses is based in Sydney Australia. With more than 25 years of experience in the video and TV-industry he is the principle cameraman and editor of Thor Productions. Thorsten is a member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS).
Key strengths
- 25+ years of video-industry experience
- Expertise in lighting, camera operation and editing
- Ability to translate ideas into visuals
Here is a recent work example that involved editing the footage of 7 cameras.
Case Study: Video Chamber Orchestra
“We asked Thorsten to help direct the filming of George Palmer’s cello concerto. We had commissioned the music as a special gift for an overseas business partner who was celebrating a major anniversary. We needed a high quality DVD to give them. Thorsten was in charge of the entire video side of the production. He was a great help creatively in early meetings in developing the concepts for the filming. He executed the recording, directing 7 cameras, set up the lighting and edited the recording. We are delighted with the result.”
Andrew Kaldor AM, Chairman Pelikan Artline, Sydney0’50” extract from George Palmer’s “Breaking the Silence”. A Chamber Orchestra video recording with cellist Catherine Hewgill and the Verbrugghen Ensemble filmed at Trackdown Studios, Sydney.
DoP/Editor: Thorsten Joses
“The task was to film a Cello Concerto and produce a blu-ray disc of the recording. The music was performed by some of Australia’s best musicians, most of them principals of the Australian Symphony Orchestra. Its theme was based on the famous Japanese haiku of the frog – a three lined poem. To connect the two cultures several images of uniquely Australian artworks were projected behind the musicians during their performance.
Music videos are traditionally done using playback. For the recording of the video the musicians mime the entire piece several times while getting filmed from various angles.
Unfortunately this was not possible on this occasion because the musicians could only come together during one day. Music and vision had to be recorded simultaneously. To achieve this I decided to use 7 cameras, 4 camera operators, a camera assistant and a data wrangler to deal with the considerable amount of HD video data. One camera delivered the time code to all the other cameras and to the music engineer for his audio recording.
The edit for this project was extremely challenging since every bit of recording was genuine and not playback. All the vision of the cameras had to be lined up with the final music edit. Imagine starting with a small section which was recorded during early morning, followed by a section recorded in the afternoon and followed by a section from mid morning… Altogether the video is made up of 43 of those sections and then subdivided into edits, each showing one of 7 camera angles.”
Thorsten Joses
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Phone: +61 2 9199 0664
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Thorsten Joses
Thor Productions
PO Box 1285
Broadway NSW 2007
Australia
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