- Jamie Hobbis was born in the the seaside town of Torquay in the UK in 1971 to a family of Hoteliers.
He has been working in the Film and TV industry for over 25 years, starting out in TV Drama and Specialist Factual back in the mid nineties. Over the years he started specialising in the drama and special effects elements of Drama Documentaries and as the shows became more ambitious and the budgets got bigger he found himself naturally segueing into Film Drama as a Cinematographer and more recently as a Producer & Cinematographer.- IMDb Mini Biography By: JSH
- His love of foreground and diagonals in frame
- His cameras are always named Harriot. Harriot 9th is his current companion. Harriot was the middle name of his Grandmother who first noticed Jamie's passion for photography, She encouraged him and supported him in his first few years at film school.
- Favourite brand of camera is an Arri. His first camera was an Arri 16BL in 1997.
- Prefers to light a space for actors to move freely in rather than light for each separate shot. He maintains it takes longer initially to light, but once set, the director is able to move quickly within the space and do what he does best... Tell the story.
- Has a paralysing phobia of sea crabs. Rubbish when you come from the seaside.
- The Wereth 11, a feature length WW2 documentary Jamie shot as the Cinematographer, received an Emmy Nomination in 2011.
- It's no fun if it's easy
- I learnt how to light with the sun. It may sound ridiculous, but learning the ability to work with the sun, and not battle it, is a skill worth having.
- I thrive in the preproduction of a feature film. The planning is where the creative juices really flow.
- Lighting an interview is where I first experienced the thrill of seeing how different faces carry the same light in a completely different way.
- My years of documentary lighting in a hurry and to a budget have helped me immeasurably in the narrative world of feature film, and having experience as a feature film cinematographer, in return, has enabled me to significantly raise the bar in drama recon for documentary.
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