Interview with Richard Muller - Part 2

Interview with Richard Muller - Part 2

From Color Mentor by Paul Hanrahan

October 13, 2025 · 1h 32m · Episode 12

About this episode

The episode features a continuation of the discussion with D.I.T. Richard Muller, focusing on his experiences and insights in virtual production and the film industry.

This is the second 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 continue to discuss the testing and calibration of various film stocks for use on virtual studios. Also metadata and maintaining consistency and the challenges to doing good work when the D.I.T. role is not acknowledged. He has lots of great advice for people wanting to become D.I.T.s. Richard’s Imdb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3415527/ We discuss: (00:00) - Intro. (00:53) - Richard intro. (01:35) - Interview starts. (01:45) - Chappie. (06:29) - Avengers. (07:16) - Tribes of Europa. (08:48) - Daylight reference library. (10:51) - Metadata capture. (11:34) - Shooting data analytics. (12:58) - Scene-lapse continuity check. (13:46) - Summary of a D.I.T’s role. (14:21) - Watching everyone’s back. (15:43) - Crew having their own equipment. (18:49) - Cost of D.I.T equipment setup. (20:13) - D.I.T and virtual production. (23:10) - Understanding the…

People in this episode

Host: Paul Hanrahan

Guest: Richard Muller

Topics covered

  • virtual production
  • D.I.T. role
  • film stock calibration
  • metadata management
  • film industry advice

Keywords

  • D.I.T.
  • virtual production
  • film stocks
  • metadata
  • film industry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IMDB

Books & works: Chappie, Avengers, Tribes of Europa, 1899, The Phoenician Scheme

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