Fran: What is your background? Did you go to film school? When did you realize that you had a passion for cinematography?
Chloë : My dad is a film editor, so there was always cinema in the family. When I was about 11, I went to the Children's Film Unit, which was a charity that taught kids how to make films, and that got me really passionate about filmmaking. So I did that from ages 11 to 16, and I really learned a lot. They had Steenbecks, we shot on 16mm, we made films for Channel 4. It was really, really inspiring. Then when I was 16, I was given a 35 mm stills camera, and started shooting stills and seeing the world in shots. I really loved that side of things. Then I went a slightly more wayward route to films. I did an academic degree in social psychology and worked in a number of different areas, before circling back to documentaries. Then I worked as a camera trainee and clapper loader for about 3 years before I went to the NFTS to do an MA in Cinematography. DoP Vanessa Whyte inspired me to apply. When I was a trainee, I loaded for her on a short film, which was a 35 mm short, and I just thought, hang on a second, what am I doing? I'm an assistant when I want to be shooting. So then I went to NFTS, and I graduated in 2012.