“180” is the first movie for director Jayendra, who has had a long successful career in high end commercials. His sponsors include Qube digital cinema solutions and Sathyam Cinemas, so it is no surprise that he insists on great image quality. What might be a surprise is that he chose to shoot with digital cameras.…
The bunch of Resolve 201 students arrived at 0930am Friday morning full of questions and expectation. 5 of them had just completed the Resolve 101 class with me during the previous 3 days, so were ready for a step up to the 201 level. The Singapore 8 Emilio Batungbacal , Pilipino owner operator, 20 year…
Los Angeles, August 22, 2011 – The International Colorist Academy (ICA) and THX Ltd. announced a partnership whereby ICA will offer classes on the use of LUTs for grading, display calibration, matching, and emulation. The inaugural class will be held October 31, 2011 at the ICA training center in Los Angeles. The courses will feature the THX…
My new Resolve V8 online training classes have just been released. “Why make online classes aren’t you going to take students from your ICA classroom training?” The answer is that the 2 training models are very different. The classroom is very interactive you get the chance to exchange footage, views and skills with not only…
London, – August 8th, 2011. International Colorist Academy (ICA) continues to expand with the addition of a new instructor. Dado Valentic joins the ICA team as an instructor for Digital Camera Workflows & Grading. Dado is a highly experienced stereoscopic 3D colourist, based in the UK, and recently graded the BAFTA award winning “Flying with…
My first real grading job was on the Michael Jackson Bad tour in 1988, directed by Patrick Kelly. I was an assistant telecine operator at Visions, located in Soho, London. As an assistant I laced the film, loaded the film cleaner and pressed REC on the 1” VTR. I spent the time in between these…
“Do what?…. grade a movie in 3 days!” This was what I replied to Stephan Surya Colorist at 3Di Jakarta when he asked me to grade their latest movie project “Safana”. I continued “You just cannot do a film justice in 3 days. What I can do though is set the key looks of the…
Working for Blackmagic Design when they announce a free DaVinci Color corrector means only one thing, a crazy busy time for the demo artist! I left Australia on Friday morning, arrived late into LAX but managed to charm my way through to the front of the immigration line, only to then wait 40 mins for…
Just back from Tokyo where I was asked to present a one day seminar. Its a long way for a day but I thought it would be fun to see how color grading is changing there, since I have not been for about 5 years. Imagine my surprise when strolled into the presentation theatre to…