That’s why he wants a BenQ home theatre projector for his own home theatre.
Pollock uses a variety of camera lenses, lighting styles and his trademark hand-held filming technique to interpret the movie’s story and the director’s vision for that movie. A great example of that commitment is in the award-winning film Wu Xia with director Peter Ho-Sun Chan. The crime drama was released in the west as “Dragon.” Pollack won Best Cinematographer in the 2012 Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong.
Color was a key element in the film, especially greens and blues. In a conversation with BenQ earlier this year, Pollack described the collaboration between director and cinematographer.
“We wanted the landscape to be a very big part of the movie,” Pollock said. “It was important to represent the lush green of southwest China’s Yunnan Province. (Also) we decided a certain scene should be moody, with more of a gloomy look to it. So it’s going to be more blue. But…what is our Wu Xia blue?”
Pollock said a lot of time was spent in post-production and color grading for the film to produce the right blues to evoke the emotion the story demanded. With all the manipulation of colors, changing their saturation and intensity to suit the different moods of the film and paint the fictional world of the martial arts heroes of ancient China, one thing had to remain constant for the story to be believable: The actors’ skin tones.