Interview with Richard Muller - Part 1
From Color Mentor by Paul Hanrahan
September 28, 2025 · 1h 31m · Episode 11
About this episode
The episode features an interview with Richard Muller discussing the role of a Digital Imaging Technician and his experiences in the film industry.
This is the first of a two-part discussion I had with Richard Muller. He is a DIT based in Germany now, but like me started out in South Africa. He has a wealth of experience from working on shows like: Chappie, Avengers, Dark, Tribes of Europa , 1899, and more recently The Phoenician Scheme, where he was a virtual production supervisor. We discuss the role of the Digital Imaging Technician and what in involves and also some testing he is doing with film and video acquisition combined with virtual studios. We discuss the quirks of various markets regarding the DIT. Richard’s Imdb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3415527/ We discuss: (00:00) - Intro. (00:53) - Richard intro. (01:35) - Interview starts. (02:40) - Working in South Africa and abroad. (05:38) - Solutions for jobs. (07:12) - Starting out. (09:11) - Film vs digital exposure guidelines. (10:25) - Post production experience. (13:51) - Early digital cameras. (15:47) - Is the role of the DIT easily defined? (16:21) - Read the fucking manual. (17:25) - LED walls, a complex color management task. (22:26) - LED wall calibration. (23:49) - Shooting tests on film. (29:03) - Film scanners. (32:33) - Color management and approaches to…
People in this episode
Host: Paul Hanrahan
Guest: Richard Muller
Topics covered
- Digital Imaging Technician
- Film and video acquisition
- Virtual production
- Color management
- Post production
- LED walls
Keywords
- DIT
- virtual production
- color management
- film exposure
- digital cameras
- HDR
- data security
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: IMDB
Books & works: Chappie, Avengers, Dark, Tribes of Europa, 1899, The Phoenician Scheme
Places: Germany, South Africa
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