ICA Promo 2013
Go behind the scenes of an ICA class. This was shot during the recent Resolve RG201 class at Media Asylum in Singapore. Warren Eagles and his students talk about their experiences.
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Fix it in post…WTF!
What has happened to the integrity of the craft of filmmaking? There once was an attitude of keeping the level, the quality of the image superior, but lately I’ve seen the opposite. I’ve seen DP’s make huge mistakes, in their exposure and in their color settings. Either it’s ego, or incompetence, but it’s a problem…
Colors That Fade
Now that DI has really taken off and the cost of owning a system has fallen sharply, the number of working colorists has grown just as dramatically. This boom in color grading may also have caused significant changes to the perception of images by the audience. Similar changes have been reported and described in language,…
NAB Mixer 2013
NAB show in Vegas. How it’s changed over 10 years….. 2003. As a Colorist you went to NAB with your Company MD, CFO, Chief Engineer, senior editor and spent $350,000 on a Color Corrector. You all got invited to a huge party with free drinks, food and girls dancing on podiums. 2013. You get a…
Overheard in the grading room in either 2003 or 2013
I have seen a huge change from when I started grading in 1988 to 2013. This is a little light hearted look and the differences over a 10 year period. 2003 [Client] I have always wanted to be in one of these rooms, isn’t that machine a million dollars? 2013 [Client] Is this software free…
Scratch FX Film Garbage clips
In 1988 we didn’t have still stores to grab reference frames. We used to record a section of film to 1” videotape manually, I would then cue this for the colorist and he would use a vision switcher to compare the live film with the tape. Directors often asked me to put the VTR into…