“What Makes A Great Colorist?”
At the fresh age of 17, Warren started his career working with images as a photographer for women’s underwear catalogues.
He moved on to working at several post houses around London before earning the opportunity to work as an assistant in a Telecine suite. His first professional gig as a colorist was in 1988 on Michael Jackson’s Bad World Tour.
Since then he’s:
* Spent time watching Guy Ritchie’s telly whilst discussing the look for “Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels”
* Worked on Australia’s first Digitally graded feature film “Blurred”
* Is now a freelance Colorist in Australia and Asia, has his own grading suite, and is a founding partner of the International Colorist Academy.
You can find Warren at:
* His color grading home page
* International Colorist Academy – In-person color grading training
* ICA’s Facebook page
* His Vimeo page with screencast tutorials for Apple Color and DaVinci Resolve
In Part 2 of Warren’s Interview we discuss:
* The advantage of a more relaxed color grading schedule
* Grading a feature film
* Warren’s color grading workflow
* Evaluating the image
* Identifying the focal point of a shot
* Creating “Looks”
* Trying to match the visual production values of major television shows
* The impact of a camera’s codec on the Color Grading process
* Color Correcting DSLR footage
* Mixing RED with DSLR
* RED DPs needing to grade their dailies
* Thoughts on the kinds of cameras we’ll see at NAB 2011
* Warren’s current business
* Being a freelance colorist
* Warren’s color grading kit (Show Notes have links to mentioned products)
* Working with new clients
* ICA’s different training options
* Why you should learn to create different Looks
* The future for professional colorists
* Warren’s upcoming online DaVinci Resolve training!
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Show Notes
* Apple Color
* Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve
* CalDigit External Drives
* Resolve Control Surface
* Tangent Wave Control Surface
* BON – Korean LCD panels
* Plura LCD Solutions
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