Color correction is a lot like sound design: it is often ignored, but when ignored reflects poorly on everyone involved in a production. Color correction can give you control over the texture, tone, color and clairity of a scene. If done properly it can can completely change the nature of a scene. When done bad is just trying to make things look “cooler.” In that case everything just ends up looking like a poorly shot episode of CSI.
Jed Smith, the person who has been The Last Quest’s post production wizard decided to post a blog entry showing the color correction before and after for each scene in our short “The Hot Dog Cycle.” I was amazed by how the slight tweaks Morgan and Jed worked on, made all the difference in some of the scenes. It is pretty interesting, check it out.
Tags: Behind the Scenes, Production Notes, The Hot Dog Cycle
On Saturday July 26th the film “Still Life” invaded a south Seattle club… The Mix. We were there from 7am to 12:30pm and got everything we needed. This is by far one of the most intense scenes we have ever set.
Tags: Behind the Scenes, Brad, Film, Morgan, Production Notes, Still Life, Video
Right now I am capturing footage I took while we were shooting The Hot Dog Cycle. It is a trip to see all of these people who helped us do something very important to us at one time. Making films is something I love so much because it brings people together who have often completely disparate lives and puts all their collective energy towards a common goal that sometimes seems unattainable. Making movies is really about momentum and collective inertia. I love all of these faces looking awkwardly at the camera as I ask them stilted questions about how it’s going or how they are feeling. The Hot Dog Cycle was an amazing experience and has turned into a pretty good film at the end of all our 9 months worth of work. I hope a lot of people see it. Our SIFF and STIFF entries are in so lets hope one of those festivals gives us an opening here in Seattle.
The reason I am capturing this footage is for the DVD we are making and to post on this blog so check back often to see what the dealio is with the Last Quest blog.
Tags: Behind the Scenes, Brad, Production Notes, The Hot Dog Cycle
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