PT 1 The grading story The stills below from the movie show the offline, with a temp grade on the top against the final grade below. Ocean View The balcony scene was the hardest to grade in the entire show. I was initially worried that there was nothing out there! The producers had gone to…
The first thing Steve Jaggi, the co producer of Short Beach, said to me was “The sun always shines in Short Beach.” My clients, Steve and Liz from Jaggi Shute productions, had arrived in the grading suite before me. Now this isn’t ideal, but is something that happens when you work as a freelance colorist.…
This post explains the process of color grading a commercial advert of night time shots for a client. I was recently asked by Alt vfx (Brisbane Post house) to do a VFX pre grade on the new Tooheys Extra Dry beer Commercial directed by Garth Davis from Exit films. Exit are one of the biggest…
After having graded a number of projects filmed on the Red One camera, I was keen to see what their new camera, the Epic, had to offer. I recently got the chance to work on a music clip for Australian artist Megan Washington called “Holy Moses.” Directed by Stephen Lance and posted at the newest…
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…
While running the recent ICA “Warren’s Looks” class last month in Singapore I got an e-mail from Andy Ho post producer at Digipost Vietnam. He needed a colorist to grade a commercial the following Sunday, and asked if I was interested? I was very keen, but could I fit it in? That night I called…
CC Chan from ACC in Hong Kong called me in December 2009 and said… “I have the very last new DaVinci 2K Plus here in my office, it’s going into the BFA in Beijing, would you like to oversee the training?” I thought of it as the end of an era, so said I’d love…
I am often asked,“What are the benefits of an ICA class and who should attend?” Here are Warren’s answers: The ICA offer a number of classes what are the differences? Colorists Strategies is a class you cannot learn from a book. It is a mixture of a number of elements that go into making…
“Such is Life” The troubled times of grading Ben Cousins by Warren Eagles. Ben Cousins is a very famous Australian Aussie rules footballer who has had a very traumatic career on and off the field. I got involved with the Cousins project just 3 weeks before the on air date. Channel Seven had just bought…