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www.MOSTmag.com || FASHIO N MAG A ZINE || 167irst of all, if you are scratching your head and saying, %u201cWho the hell is Sean Cronin?%u201d then you are A.) not British and B.) about to know who the hell he is. He is an actor from the UK and if you have seen The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, then you have seen him. You can%u2019t swing a dead cat in Britain without hitting one of his films or TV shows, though. And he%u2019s got a role in the upcoming Mission Impossible 5, (which is in post-production) so rest assured, my fellow %u2018Muricans, you will be seeing more of him. We%u2019ll discuss his upcoming and just-finished films a little later, but Mr. Cronin is apparently a man of many, many talents. He is much more than a murderous and brooding hunk in films. He also directs, writes, and produces. %u201cI love being both in front [of] and behind the camera,%u201d he says, %u201cbut directing and being behind the camera is, in many ways, a much higher calling. I studied cinematography at the New York Film School and learned from one of the great cinematographers of all time, Adrian Biddle. Adrian was the Director of Photography on many amazing films, including several of the %u2018Bonds%u2019. Sadly he died in 2005, God rest his soul. He taught me so much on the sets of James Bond and The Mummy without even knowing it. I just sat there quietly and watched him do his magic. I truly believe that if you make every frame a Rembrandt, then you are in with a chance of making memorable cinema.%u201d There have been many strides in technology, as it pertains to cinematography, and Mr. Cronin has borne witness to them for the last 20-plus years. He%u2019s quite astute on the subject of cameras and editing, as you%u2019d expect of a man of his stature and experience. %u201cThe most significant change in technology, as far as cameras are concerned, was the invention of the Red One 4k camera followed by the Arri Alexa, which really changed movie making. Suddenly you could make digital look like film. Nowadays nearly 75% of the films made are shot on very high-resolution digital cameras. The beauty of that is there was no %u2018telecine%u2019 required and you can literally edit straightaway, which is made things a lot cheaper and a lot more accessible.%u201d While the characters he plays are probably more likely to %u2018shoot to kill%u2019, Sean says, %u201cI usually like to edit the stuff that I shoot because I %u2018shoot to edit%u2019 and I understand when I%u2019m directing exactly what I want from a scene.%u201d So now we know Sean Cronin is a cinematography nerd, and maybe just a little bit of control freak.He just finished directing An Unfortunate Woman and it is on the festival circuit. %u201cI definitely was %u2018vested%u2019 in it%u2026in fact, it nearly killed me! I shot, directed and edited it and had to hand deliver it to the Cannes Film Festival office in Paris by 9:00 in the morning after working on it all night!! I think short films are very often the %u2018stepping stone%u2019 to convincing potential investors that you are able and equipped to make films of a very high standard. Hopefully that, and another film that I recently directed, achieve just that. As far as accessibility, more often than not, once these short films have completed the festival circuit they%u2019re often posted online on channels like YouTube, Vimeo etc. so they can be viewed. But obviously they don%u2019t have chance of making any real money, By: Kate Brisbois>>>Actor: