The word ‘asset’ – or ‘asset management’ – is now used so often that we could be forgiven for forgetting what it means. The Oxford English Dictionary says that an asset is ‘a thing of use or value’, and for most media businesses their content is their lifeblood. So it makes sense to treat content…
Look at the sequence below. Shot #3, the guy on the balcony is under exposed and #6, the same angle, is overexposed. The big challenge here is to try to match #3 and #6. This is how I would approach it. The tutorial is generic so can be applied to any color corrector. During this…
Please join the guys from iColorist, Mixing Light and the Tao of Color for an evening of Colorist networking with other industry professionals. Never has so many shows, TVCs, music videos, movies, corporate films, and web content been graded by so many people sometimes in remote locations not previously know for color correction. The mixer…
“How long will it take to grade this show?” It is a question I am often asked, so I have some standard replies. Obviously every TVC, movie or music video is different so a rough guide is the best you can offer your client without seeing the footage. Things that impact on the time quoted…
I am unashamedly posting a link on this, rather than writing my own blog. And yes there is a free gift included at the end! Unite! Read this if you value your job. Tim Kreider writes what I think far more eloquently than I, because after all he is a professional writer. But he is plagued…
The world’s 2nd Resolve V10 classes took place in Burbank over a week in early September. I always say it is the mixed demographic of the students that makes the classes so interesting, this class was no different. We had 11 students signed up for my R201 class, half had come straight from the R101 and…
The first ICA Resolve class was in 2010 at Media Village in Singapore. It was run on a R250 Linux machine using Resolve version 6. I had 8 students huddled round 1 system looking at a 24’ monitor. I would demo a feature than each student would take turns in the colorist chair whilst the…
I met Den in Soho last year when he attended my Resolve class. As a DP he brought some great insight to the class, not to mention challenging questions. We crossed paths again in NYC in December when he was running an F-Stop Academy class at Abelcine. Last week he was in Brisbane so we…
From 1950-2000 not much changed in feature film grading. A lab color timer graded from film in the laboratory. We watched movies projected from film that were shot on film. In the TVC/TV world between 1985 and 2005 not much changed we graded mainly film negative in a high end grading room. The TVC grading…