Filming gives you a kind of super power: if you do it well, people open their doors and treat you like an old friend. When you film an artist expressing himself, you catch a lot of him and your filming style needs to adapt to his performance, this kinds of shoots are a good field for experimenting.
When a cameraman shoots something new, out of his routine, it costs so much more efforts than a regular shooting, but it is rewarding to film something different. From the shooting to the editing you can express all your creativity, you face the set knowing that it will be tough, you will need to prepare a lot of equipment.
You will not even be sure about the best way to record the sound or manage the lighting, it will be a surprise for yourself. On the other hand, it is often a new experience for the artist as well, there is not a standard. And even if he had been in other shootings, you know that with you it will not be the same.
He is glad to catch your creativity, they cannot ask for anything better than showing their art from another point of view. You learn their art and they learn yours, it is just the top of the complicity you can get. I love it, I do lot of these shootings and I never get tired of it.
