Look really quickly at the scene from FIVE HOURS SOUTH of sunset on the beach; notice anything wrong? The light in the close-up clearly illuminates our lovers; in the wide, the sun has moved and the inside of the car is dark. This is a classic example of a problem from production (being able to ...
As film schedules get faster and faster, there is more and more pressure to run multiple cameras. This often shows up as the class “we shot RED for a-camera, but the director owned a 5D that we stuck in for b-cam,” which shows up in about half of my RED jobs these days, and will ...
So, for those of us who really came of age watching music videos in the 1990s, crunch blacks are a signature of image quality. We can’t help the aesthetics of our youth, we can only react to them. Crunchy blacks means taking the black level of your image down low enough that you begin to ...
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Just finished up a grade for the new My Chemical Romance video NA NA NA NA, which then went on to #1 on MySpace music the week of release. Really fun grade, went for a cool, very crunchy, saturated look in conjunction with the director and the band. http://www.youtube.com/user/mychemicalromance#p/c/0B8213D1340F1731/8/egG7fiE89IU
Rewatching THE INSIDER again recently and I was struck by the Day for Night sequence of Pacino on the phone at the beach. DAY FOR NIGHT is a funny thing; a lot of people go too blue, and too bright. But Michael Mann and Dante Spinotti crafted a look for this conversation that felt entirely ...
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Sunset on an Italian beach
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As film schedules get faster and faster, there is more and more...