Cinematography Reel

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY ANDREW YOUNG

Archipelago principal Andrew Young is an award-winning cinematographer with honors that include an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography, three Excellence in Cinematography Awards at the Sundance Film Festival, two Best Cinematography Awards from the Giant Screen Cinema Association, Best Cinematography at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, and three Emmy Nominations for Best Cinematography.

Cinematography

Apart from his work on Archipelago productions, Young regularly works as a cinematographer for other producers. Clients include: Nature, National Geographic, Nova, The American Experience, the Discovery Channel and the BBC.

While visual style is often dictated by subject matter, Young most often pursues an experiential style of cinematography. Whether filming people or animals, his goal is always to put the audience inside the story. This often involves the creative use of lighting, as well as specialized equipment and techniques such as Stabilizers, jib arms, probe lenses, aerial mounts, underwater housings, motion control, time-lapse, and high-speed photography. However, on human subjects, Young often finds there is no substitute for spontaneous and intuitive handheld shooting to put the audience in the moment.

Young is well versed in all major acquisition formats, including film and high-end cinema cameras such as the Phantom Flex and Red Monstro. Equipment packages are available to suit the needs of any production.

Stock Footage

Archipelago Films has a large collection of stock footage shot with an uncompromising visual style. Geographical areas include Central America, South America, Alaska and Madagascar. Subjects include forests, wildlife and indigenous people. The Alaska collection includes such iconic subjects as bald eagles, brown bears, salmon, humpback whales, seals, sea lions, wolves, glaciers, and mountains.

Our stock footage clients include National Geographic Television, Survival Anglia, Jacques Cousteau, Nova, Smithsonian World, CBC, American Museum of Natural History, St. Louis Zoo, and the Grateful Dead. Please contact us for up-to-date pricing information.

Custer

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY ANDREW YOUNG

This clip contains both the intro and a battle scene from the film CUSTER, which Young shot for Insignia Films as part of the series The American Experience. For the battle scene, high shutter speed and disorienting camera movements were used to create a sense of panic.

The Roads to Memphis

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY ANDREW YOUNG

This clip is a montage of reenactment scenes from the Insignia Films feature documentary "The Roads to Memphis," about Martin Luther King's assassin, James Earl Ray. Young shot the scenes on the Red One camera, using the format's shallow depth of field to help give the scenes a more impressionistic, less literal feeling. The film was created for the PBS series The American Experience.

Catching Hell

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY ANDREW YOUNG

Young used stark lighting and a Weisscam running at 500 frames per second to create these stylized reenactments for Alex Gibney's film "Catching Hell," about two of baseball's most infamous errors.

Slavery By Another Name

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY ANDREW YOUNG

This clip contains excerpts from the feature-length documentary directed by Sam Pollard, for which Young photographed dramatic reenactments. The film debuted at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Frogs

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY ANDREW YOUNG

The Phantom high-speed digital cinematography camera is a tool that can add excitement and visual poetry to a production. Young used one at 500 fps to create this sequence from" Frogs: a Thin Green Line," an ArgoFilms production for the PBS series Nature.