From Freelancer to Facility Owner With Senior Colourist CJ Dobson, CSI

July 19, 2023

Colorist CJ Dobson shares her journey from freelancing to owning a boutique Color shop, offering unique solutions for modern post workflows.


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How to build a unique colour grading facility
in a male-dominated industry


Today we talk with CJ Dobson CSI, a Melbourne-based colourist who has turned ten years of freelancing into the launch pad for running her own shop. A respected colourist in her own right, CJ has graded numerous Australian features, commercials, and TV series:

  • Deadloch
  • The Portable Door 
  • Crazy Fun Park 
  • Petrol
  • Love Me
  • Escape from Pretoria
Colourist CJ Dobson, CSI

In this in-depth interview, CJ shares how her recently opened colour facility, Moodlab Film Looks, offers her clients new solutions to old workflow problems. We discuss CJ’s journey from being ‘queen of the conform’ at Digital Pictures to freelancing for a decade to becoming a business owner, some of the unique future-facing services Moodlab offers, and the challenges of succeeding as a woman in a male-dominated industry.

I wanted to open my own shop because I believe as a group you can achieve more than you can on your own.

CJ Dobson, CSI

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