The Infinity Edition — Sunday Morning Color Grading Newsletter

I definitely recommend bookmarking and perusing: “this data offers considerable value to every department on a production, supporting collaboration, optimizing workflows, and enabling better-informed decisions throughout the filmmaking process. Advocating for open access and visibility for these datasets allows all teams to engage with and benefit from this knowledge, strengthening collective outcomes and production efficiency.”

This article is less about images being too dark than about systemic filmmaking issues resulting in uninteresting visuals. Example:

“With digital, dailies are available on a monitor — instantly. “Anybody who is part of the production can be sitting next to the monitor and have a lot of opinions about what they’re doing,” said Bendetti.

Yedlin thinks this too-many-cooks situation ultimately leads to a certain flattening. “People are playing it safe,” he said. “Bland safeness on set is going to be bland safeness in the end. Bland safety on set is not a way to make something strong in post.”