Cinefex Blog: Charmaine Chan works as a compositor and area technical lead at Industrial Light & Magic. Her feature film career highlights include Black Panther, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Pacific Rim. Charmaine is also the founder of Women in Visual Effects, an online project highlighting and advocating women who work within the visual effects industry.
I am definitely intrigued by the possibility of going into film. I don't quite think I have the programming skills to do visual effects close to the level of Industrial Light and Magic, but I am definitely into clever cinematography and camera work. On the night of the Academy Awards, we were talking about the film equivalents of each of the design fields, and, as a person who hopes to go into lighting design, I am seriously considering the field of cinematography. I love all the films Charmaine Chan mentioned would go into her imaginary film festival for exactly the same reasons she liked them-- their cinematography. I understand that cinematography is more than just lighting for movies, that it requires a depth of knowledge of camera angles and composition theory. I am definitely a visually oriented person; when I see a movie, I pay attention most to the cinematography-- the shot composition, the angle , the lighting. I just want to be able to contribute to that.
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