Colorist Inspiration – November

The sky movies spot was shot anamorphic so you know you have to stick with a film look.

Seems like in all the spots the lens choice depicted the grade the sky movies and man on the moon spots were shot with vintage glass and are graded more filmic. The boots and your spot where shot with more optically perfect glass and graded such. In listening to some DOP podcasts like the wandering DP, It seems like many DOPs really try to bake in a look in camera in order to prevent the colorist form changing their vision of the project.

Well … I’m like’n the grades on Boots – Christmas 2015 (crisp … traditional … punch) and your Cadbury commercial (doesn’t have a digital look to me); and, I am partial to chocolate covered Alexa footage. John Lewis’ – Man On The Moon is really very pleasing – especially the moon shots. Frankly, I didn’t notice the dark magenta skin tone first run though until you pointed out … I was paying attention to the story. After watching for a second pass, I wondered if the director might have been pushing to build in some kinda ethic angle – not sure what ethnicity, though. Good fun. Thanks, Dan.