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Ian Woolston-Smith has years of Steadicam operating experience working on features, television, national commercials, music videos, and documentaries. Ian pursued his early interest in cinematography with a Bachelor Of Fine Arts Degree in cinema, as well as studying at the Maine Film And Television Workshops with Academy Award winning cinematographers like Walter Lassally, BSC. Lassally’s weeks spent teaching operating, and lighting, was a 12 hour a day crash course introduction to what the future could be. Ian’s many experiences led him to study Steadicam operating with the renowned inventor, Garrett Brown, and master Steadicam operator, Larry McConkey.
Ian’s Steadicam work gives him the opportunity to operate for talented award winning cinematographers like Dean Cundey ASC, Buddy Squires ASC, Lisa Rinsler, Ben Kutchins, and directors like Ric Burns and David LaChapelle. Ian worked the rise of music video shooting in collaboration with many loyal directors like Brett Ratner, Joseph Kahn, Roman Coppola, and Nigel Dick. Ian’s wealth of musical experience is handy when working on music video parodies for Saturday Night Live, and other SNL projects, with directors like Akiva Schaffer, and Seth Meyers,
Projects with lots of moving camera can involve operating A or B camera as well. Ian has worked well with actor/directors, who are in front of the camera while directing, like Matthew Broderick, Mario Van Peebles, and David Arquette. Ian also operated Dave Chappell’s Emmy nominated skit, “Charlie Murphies True Hollywood Stories: Rick James”. Recently for SNL, “Mother Lovers” sequel to the Emmy winning short “Dick in a Box”, and “I Just Had Sex”, shot by Martin Ahlgren