Color Correction
By Brad Leong story, director
I’m sitting in the final color correction session as I write this. Everything is looking super great. George (Porgy) dropped by for a surprise visit, which was nice because I haven’t been able to see him much since production. I’ve gotten to know our colorist Steve Peer really well, we’ve spent a few lonely nights together locked in the telecine bay working away till 1 in the morning.
We got the cut D5 online of the film a few weeks ago and have been going through it and working on perfecting the color of every shot. The basic process starts with Rachel, our DP, coming in and scanning through the whole film with Steve color-correcting the wide of every scene under her direction. This sets the tone / color mood of the film as a whole and the specific color feel of the individual scenes. It took about 5 hours to do this.
Using these corrected wide shots as a reference Steve can then go in and correct all the other shots in the scenes around the wides. He makes all the shots conform and cut seamlessly between each other. This took another three nights of work to get through the whole film. While it’s fairly frustrating that it takes so long and you are literally moving though shot by shot our post house gives free meals to clients sitting in on color sessions so I’ve been loving it.
After Steven finishes working through the whole film there is a final session where the entire film is “laid down” meaning it’s actually printed to tape in real time. We are all sitting right now watching the final tape to tape “lay down” making sure everything looks excellentness. If there is a problem Steve can stop recording and we can go back and make changes and then pick up where we left off.
After tonight there are only a few more pictures processes. We still have to overlay opening credits as well as the ending roll. And we also need to do some computer magic to get rid of a few logos that we weren’t able to clear. But after those two things we are pretty much completely done with picture. Love it!
I’m sitting in the final color correction session as I write this. Everything is looking super great. George (Porgy) dropped by for a surprise visit, which was nice because I haven’t been able to see him much since production. I’ve gotten to know our colorist Steve Peer really well, we’ve spent a few lonely nights together locked in the telecine bay working away till 1 in the morning.
We got the cut D5 online of the film a few weeks ago and have been going through it and working on perfecting the color of every shot. The basic process starts with Rachel, our DP, coming in and scanning through the whole film with Steve color-correcting the wide of every scene under her direction. This sets the tone / color mood of the film as a whole and the specific color feel of the individual scenes. It took about 5 hours to do this.
Using these corrected wide shots as a reference Steve can then go in and correct all the other shots in the scenes around the wides. He makes all the shots conform and cut seamlessly between each other. This took another three nights of work to get through the whole film. While it’s fairly frustrating that it takes so long and you are literally moving though shot by shot our post house gives free meals to clients sitting in on color sessions so I’ve been loving it.
After Steven finishes working through the whole film there is a final session where the entire film is “laid down” meaning it’s actually printed to tape in real time. We are all sitting right now watching the final tape to tape “lay down” making sure everything looks excellentness. If there is a problem Steve can stop recording and we can go back and make changes and then pick up where we left off.
After tonight there are only a few more pictures processes. We still have to overlay opening credits as well as the ending roll. And we also need to do some computer magic to get rid of a few logos that we weren’t able to clear. But after those two things we are pretty much completely done with picture. Love it!
Labels: Post-Production
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