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- This is a late-August shortened edition. So, after you've finished perusing the nice variety of excellent stories this week... shut down the electronics and enjoy the last part of your weekend. There will be plenty of shop to talk in coming weeks.
- If you absolutely positively need a bigger fix than what's in this week's Newsletter... and if you're a subscriber to Adobe's Creative Cloud... then you have access to SpeedGrade CC (as do all your AfterEffects- and PremierePro-using clients).
And THAT means you'll want to check out the 4 hours of SpeedGrade CC training I've created for you . . .
to help whittle away these remaining August afternoons. It was released this week to MixingLight.com and has 3 small projects for you to work through. Get all the details here.
(BTW - if Resolve is more to your liking . . . don't forget Tao of Color's it-just-like-sitting-next-to-me-in-session-for-16-hours Colorist Flight School. There's the online version and there's the live 3-day workshop version.)
See you next week. Happy Grading!
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The Craft |
- [Video] Color correction vs color grading - If your friends and family ever ask you 'what is it that you do for a living, exactly?' you might want to show this video. The 30 Second Film School's short primer on the difference between correcting the look of a film and grading it. (youtube.com)
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Keeping the Unreal Honest - Colorist Scott Klein on grading HBO's hit, True Blood. Scott is interviewed by Studio Daily about how he uses DaVinci Resolve to create some of the looks for this series. (studiodaily.com)
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The Tools |
- [video] DaVinci Resolve: Working with Keyframes - Filmmaker Jesse Borkowski shows you how to use Dynamic and Static keyframes, animating parameters over time. (youtube.com via
@jesseborkowski)
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The Business |
Hollywood's completely broken, and you helped break it - At least that's the implication in Lynda Obst's new book, 'Sleepless in Hollywood.' What role did you play in breaking Hollywood? When you stopped buying DVDs and started streaming on Netflix, Hollywood's economics changed. And so have the movies. Good info in here. But long-winded. (
www.salon.com)
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Outside 'The Box' |
[video] Low Budget Filmmaking and Forced Perspective - Filmmaker Vashi Nedomansky is currently in post-production on his film, 'The Grind.' He took time out to write this wonderful blog story on the process of creating forced perspective using models. After reading the post, be sure to check out the short video embed from Vashi's film. Sometimes the simplest solution will be the cheapest, most realistic and easiest. (
vashivisuals.com)
[video] The Restoration of Vertigo
- The doc also highlights the making of the classic movie. Interviews include the cast, crew, and the restoration team. Detailed with fun facts, but skips over the color restoration process. (youtube.com)
- [info graphic] Colorizing Walter White's Decay
- An epic timeline of wardrobe colors from 'Breaking Bad.' The moods, events, and impact of Walter White on the lives of Breaking Bad characters, using every color worn through the show's five seasons. (tdylf.com)
- [video] The future of movies, circa 1990
- Go back in time and watch Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert interview Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese about the future of the movies. Clear your schedule, this video tips in at nearly 50 minutes. (youtube.com)
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Edumacate Yer'self |
Membership Site: Studio Backlot - Class on Demand launches a new membership website. The site is full of tutorials, stock content, gear reviews, and a host of other content. Free for the first week, $5.99(U.S.) per month after that. (studiobacklot.tv
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[ebook] Color Grading 101 - Stuart Blake Jones, the Colorist who graded "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Poltergeist" has just published his first ebook. It's a basic book for those new to color grading, and is pretty much software independent. Available for download for iPad at iTunes. (
itunes.apple.com)
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies) |
[Video] The beer glass that may save humanity - You're at a bar, you're with friends, their cell phone rings, they answer. Not cool. Solution? The Offline Glass. Scroll to the bottom to watch the Vimeo video. (buzzfeed.com
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Showcase |
- [video] Dan Invited Hannah Over for Dinner. This is a 9 minute short film from Toronto, Canada, that instantly drew me in. I loved its tongue-in-cheek tone, but it quickly transitions into something with great emotional resonance. The turn knocked me out. Very well done. (vimeo.com
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The Next Step Is A Doozy |
[video] What 11 pairs of eyeballs watching a movie looks like - This newsletter featured this video a few years ago... but it recently made the rounds again and is worth the re-share... Researchers want to know what you're looking at when you're watching a movie. This is really cool blog story with an interesting video embed of a scene from "There Will Be Blood." Read the blog and then watch the scene ...along with the eyeballs of eleven other people. (
mentalfloss.com) You can read more on the project, here: (
thediemproject.wordpress.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading!
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