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Day 4: 24 Insights In 24 Days โ 2020 New Year Marathon!
Grading a long time ago in a galaxy far far away
Welcome to the first insight in an exciting new series here on Mixing Light. In this series, we are going to take a look at the grade and online from start to finish of an amazing fan film โStar Wars Originsโ.
Hereโs the full film:
The Details
Phil Hawkins a great friend of mine directed the film. Shot on RED Weapon 8K HELIUM S35 camera and KOWA Evolution anamorphic lenses.
Living out a childhood dream couldnโt have had a better starting point as David Meadows the cinematographer captured amazing looking images right on the sensor.
I know this isnโt a real Disney level official film but itโs as close as Iโm going to get unless I change my name to Stefan Sonnenfeld or Walter Volpatto. The best part of it being a fan film is that we truly get access to all areas:
- The director Phil was the editor so I have the actual edit project in Premiere
- I have all the original rushes from both the RED Weapon and the Drone (shot raw)
- I have all the VFX from starting previs right up to the final renders used in the film
- I also graded and onlined the film so I have every single element โ and I can share these with you (except not the actual footage files).
If youโd like to really dive into every aspect of the film, Phil has a great youtube channel and has documented every step of making the Origins film
A little background on the project itself.
Itโs just under 20 mins, split into 4 reels and finished at DCI 4k (4096ร2160) in ACES for both HDR and SDR.
The first premiered in a cinema in London for press and Q&A screenings. Then, it premiered on Youtube where most people are going to see it.
This is going to be a very in-depth series, as itโs being finished to a studio standard Iโm going to go into a huge amount of detail on each step of the way. Obviously, certain things like conforming might not be fun to watch in real-time so I might speed up these moments and compress time when a repetitive task is happening. But apart from that itโs going to be all warts and full view of working on a narrative project like this.
Jump over to the video, where I tell you more about this project and this series.
โDan