To get in the ❄holiday spirit❄ we went #behindthescenes with #cinematographer Dan Mindel ASC, BSC, SASC (@dan_mindel) on the absolute romp of a movie 'Red One'. “We’ve all seen lots of Christmas movies where Santa, the North Pole, and all of that stuff looks warm, comforting and fun, so we sort of approached that part of it with a sense of humor, taking inspiration from every single Christmas movie you've ever seen, and just throwing in, mixing up, and counter pointing with the action part of the movie, which we tried to bring a contemporary look and feel to. I decided to use the #Primos and the T and C Series lenses. For me, the selection of the lenses is basically the same for every movie. It's all about the texture that we bring to the lenses to put into the workflow. The last movie we did [Twisters] is analog and the elements that are involved in that process clearly are not present in the digital part of the process, so what I like to do is at least give the digital format the space and the benefit of having the best optics you can get to capture the images, knowing that we have to compensate in the post part of the process to take away any sort of unforgivable idiosyncratic behavior that's not predicted. That's why I like to use the same technology – I like to be able to know that something is not going to disturb our balance. To me, it's more about getting the story than the equipment in the grand scheme of things, but that's understanding that the lenses are going to do what they're going to do. It's not all sunglasses and high tech BS. Story is the game, and that's why we're there. What brought me to Panavision is the lifelong support that they’ve given me from when I was a 2nd assistant. There's very little I can say other than that the proof is in the pudding. [Dan] Sasaki has backed me my entire life and I try to reciprocate. Some 45 years ago when I started in the camera department as a trainee in my 20s, I just became enamored with the process of shooting, looking at dailies, correcting, reshooting, and laboriously making images that people can invest in. It's a process that I'm still learning and still have a tremendous amount of fun doing so.”