[Tig] FW: FW: who graded matrix

[Dominic Case]

>The act of watching once and retaining the images for density, balance, 
>sharpness, and all the dozens of other qualities, over some x period of 
>time, and duplicating it in a different place, is quite interesting as
applies to color memory.

I think it's a holistic right-brain function - not just memorising some kind
of colour decision list shot by shot.

If a show is graded sensibly, then it is graded with a purpose to give a
particular look and tell a particular story. So each individual decision
about colour, density, etc, fits into a pattern. In other words, character A
is lit more brightly than the others for a reason: the garden scenes are
always green and saturated compared with the scenes in the park for a
reason: the shadows in the interior are dark enough to hide anything in the
corner of the room because it's a threatening situation. . . etc.

So once you have the director's intentions in your mind, it's easy to make
the right grading decisions consistently throughout, and even easier to
recall them after a screening. (Implementing them accurately and speedily is
something else, of course).

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Dominic Case
Atlab Australia
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