Warren Eagles' Color Tour Podcast

Warren Eagles' Color Tour Podcast

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Warren Eagles' Color Tour Podcast episodes

  • Podcast S3 EP07: Maxine Gervais, Hollywood, US

    Season 3 of the Color Tour Podcast has been renamed ‘Not on Tour.’ I cannot travel so the CT Podcast is being conducted on ZOOM. I talked to Maxine in her DI theatre at Picture Shop during a break in sessions.

    Maxine is a Hollywood A list Colorist. Her credits include big tent pole titles amongst a list of over 60 films. She now works at Picture Shop, previously known as Technicolor. We start our conversation with Maxine turning on her Christie 4K projector so I can see her on the ZOOM call. Maxine has an infectious personality that compliments her technical knowledge and creativity.

    Topics discussed

    • How did she manage to get on a Harry Potter film for her very first DI grade?
    • What is it like to work at a big Hollywood Post House?
    • Working with Clint Eastwood
    • Creating the amazing look of ‘The Book of Eli’
    • What are Marvel like to work for?
    • Maxine’s thoughts on women in film
    • How did the Harry Potter collaboration with Peter Doyle come about?
      • IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1923595/
      Picture Shop: https://pictureshop.com/team/
      Book of Eli Trailer: https://youtu.be/kAMUv22y1og
      Mixer 2018

      1 hr
    • Podcast S3 EP06: Setyo. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

      Season 3 of the Color Tour Podcast has been renamed ‘Not on Tour.’ I cannot travel so the CT Podcast is being conducted on ZOOM.

      Setyo is as he says laughing, “I’m one of three gun colorists in Malaysia” He was born in Indonesian before moving to KL. He scored a job at the Blackmagic Design Post House as a VT op and worked his way up to being a senior colorist. Setyo now runs his own Color grading shop in KL.

      Topics discussed

      • How did he get started?
      • What are the challenges of owning and operating your own shop?
      • Coloring both TVCs and movies
      • Educating his clients to understand the value of color correction
      • Losing a feature project to another colorist
      • Working at the Blackmagic Design post house and on the ‘Bait’ movie.
        • Link to the Mitsubishi TVC and the ‘Bait’ movie we chat about
        Bait Movie Trailer
        Mitsubishi Expander
        Reel: https://vimeo.com/setyocolorist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlvYBhzVsde2SNdbljId5Tnk9XzmI6SX9
        Instagram 

        1 hr 3 min
      • Podcast S3 EP05: Bob Festa CSI, Los Angeles US
        Chatting to Bob was the ultimate ‘going down memory lane Podcast’ for me. Having said that he also has some fantastic advice for up and coming color graders.
        Bob Festa has been coloring for nearly 40 years. As he says in the podcast “There is nothing I haven’t seen in front or behind me in a session, the only difference now during the Pandemic there is nothing going on behind me!
        Bob has worked at most of LAs top Post Houses and was also a partner in a start up company New Hat in 2008
        We discuss his life in Color and why he still loves the job.
        • What was the colorist scene like in the 80s?
        • What are the challenges of owning and operating your own shop?
        • Getting 35% of the room rate in the boom time in the mid 2000s
        • What is it like at CO3?
        • Grading the Kevin Costner show Yellowstone
        • Why he is member of the CSI
          • Company 3 Bio
          https://www.company3.com/artists/bob-festa/
          Post Perspective article with Bob on grading Yellowstone
          https://postperspective.com/colorist-bob-festa-yellowstones-modern-western-look/

           

          1 hr 11 min
        • Podcast S3 EP04: Gino Amadori CSI, Lima, Peru.

          Season 3 of the Color Tour Podcast has been renamed ‘Not on Tour.’

          Gino is one of the leading color graders in Peru. I first met Gino when he came to my iColorist NYC class in 2012. We have stayed in contact ever since. He has really embraced HDR and is already on his 2nd HDR monitor. We chatted about working in Peru and how he started Gamma Post in Lima

          Topics discussed

          • How did Gamma Post come about?
          • What are the challenges of owning and operating your own shop?
          • Grading HDR, how hard is it?
          • Editing a Cocaine doco in the early days on FCP5
          • Why he went for the Postium OBM X310 HDR monitor
          • What are his plans for working overseas.
            • Linkedin
            Gino Amadori Linkedin
            https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginoamadori/
            Gamma Post House LinkedIn
            https://www.linkedin.com/company/3829770/admin/
            Facebook Page
            Gino Amadori
            https://www.facebook.com/ginoamadori
            Gamma Post House
            https://www.facebook.com/GammaPostHouse
            Instagram
            Gino Amadori
            https://www.instagram.com/ginoamadori/
            Gamma Post House
            https://www.instagram.com/gammapost/
            Reels in Frame.io
            https://f.io/yvbSHTWh
            Postium HDR monitor
            https://www.postium.com/product/obm-x310/
            55 min
          • Podcast S3 EP03: Juan Cabrera, Santa Monica

            Season 3 of the Color Tour Podcast has been renamed ‘Not on Tour.’

            I chatted to Juan Cabrera 3 days before the 2020 HPA Awards where he was nominated coloring the TNT show Alienist ‘Angel of Darkness’

            Juan started his first company aged 17 in Madrid, Spain. He prepped for his first color grade by reading the Mistika manual on a 5 hour car drive from Madrid to Malaga. Once in Malaga he graded his first short film and his career as a colorist was launched.

            Working as a Stereographer on some of Hollywood’s biggest feature films was Juan’s stepping stone to starting his own Post Production shop in Santa Monica called Lightbender Post. He is a Mistika user and works on longform feature films and series.

            Topics discussed

            • How did Lightbender come about?
            • What are the challenges of owning and operating your own shop?
            • Coloring with Mistika what are the advantages?
            • His first color session in Malaga.
            • The HPA Awards nomination for coloring the TNT show Alienist ‘Angel of Darkness’
            • Working with JJ Abrahams on Star Trek into Darkness,
            • His kit at Lightbender and how he competes with the big competition in Los Angeles.
              • Link to TNTs ‘Alienist’ https://youtu.be/QOjMCfDMbic
              Lightbender Reel & site: https://www.lightbenderpost.com
              IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3043942
              Instagram @lightbender_post

              1 hr 6 min
            • Podcast S3 EP02: Toby Tomkins, London

              Season 3 of the Color Tour Podcast has been renamed ‘Not on Tour.’

              I visited Toby at CHEAT in 2018. It is a fantastic facility situated in Hackney East London, very close to where I went to school. We checked out his facility and then went to his local pub for a pie and a pint. I didn’t have my recording kit that day, but I made the desision to include Toby on the CT Podcast.

              Topics discussed

              • How did CHEAT come about?
              • What are the challenges of owning and operating your own shop?
              • Coloring The ‘End of the F***ing World’ Emmy winning show.
              • Doing color research when not grading
              • Add grain or not, if so how?
              • Battling through COVID 19 lockdown
              • Fine tuning the CHEAT Streambox workflow with iPad Pros
                • Link to Netflix’s ”The end of the F***ing World’ https://youtu.be/8XvFO83LXBE
                CHEAT Reel & site: https://www.cheatit.co
                IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2164371/
                Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cheat_it/
                Social media: Facebook and Instagram as Walter Volpatto

                1 hr 2 min
              • Podcast Episode S3 EP01: Walter Volpatto, Hollywood

                Season 3 of the Color Tour Podcast has been renamed ‘Not on Tour.’ I had planned to visit Walter in his new grading suite at Company 3 just after NAB 2020 but COVID 19 meant I never made it to LA. I decided to make the CT Podcast a Virtual Pod and I’m glad I did as this is a great listen.

                Walter is one of the world’s leading Color graders. He has coloured over 100 features including Green Book, Star Wars The Last Jedi, and Dunkirk. Walter started his US career at FotoKem before moving to EFilm then to Company 3. He is a great asset to our industry and is always willing to share information and give advice.

                Topics discussed

                • The Company 3 colorist structure and why you shouldn’t be afraid to get a quote from them.
                • How Walter moved from being a factory worker in Italy to being a top Colorist in Hollywood.
                • The importance of supporting smaller projects and looking after your DP.
                • Dolby Vision on the new Netflix movie ‘The Old Guard’
                • The Color workflow for Dunkirk and working with Christopher Nolan.
                • The HDR of Star Wars ‘The Last Jedi’ Why people said it wasn’t HDR enough!
                • The YouTubers who are spreading the wrong training message.
                • How you can transfer from a different country or position.
                  • Link to Netflix’s ‘The Old Guard’ movie https://youtu.be/aK-X2d0lJ_s
                  Company 3 Reel & site: https://www.company3.com/artists/walter-volpatto/
                  IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2164371/
                  Star Wars interview https://youtu.be/GCfvDuQ-IWU
                  Social media: Facebook and Instagram as Walter Volpatto

                  1 hr 7 min
                • Podcast Episode 14: Junbin Chen, Singapore

                  Junbin Chen is one of the top colorists in South East Asia. This is our pre COVID-19 chat that took place at a post house called Iceberg in Singapore. The chat then relocated to Bar Larong 13 in near by Geylang.
                  Junbin has graded over 25 feature films, 20 TV series and 100s of TV Commercials. She was finishing a McDonalds commercial when we met at Iceberg, she discuses the TVC workflow for the project.
                  Other random info: JB is usually 75% liquid coffee and loves cats.

                   

                  Topics discussed

                  • The McDonalds TVC she is colouring shot with the Phantom camera
                  • Working at Blackmagic, how that helped her get connected
                  • The transition from TVCs to Longform, what does she prefer?
                  • How is the Singapore Post Scene?
                  • What does JB say to clients who say “What will it look like at home?”
                  • What she is doing to try and secure a grading position overseas.
                    • Link to Macca’s spot: https://youtu.be/8jCf0b6L-wI
                    Reel & site: http://colorjb.com/
                    IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4541444/
                    Iceberg Design https://icebergdesign.com
                    Social media: @colorjb on Instagram or @chen.junbin on Facebook

                    43 min
                  • Color Tour Podcast Episode 13: Chema Alba, Madrid, Spain

                    Chema Alba is one of Spain’s premier color graders. He started out at a film scanning company. Handling film gave him the taste for colouring so he pursued the big manufactures to loan him a machine so he could practice. This showed his enthusiasm as at the time he wasn’t a colorist and the systems were over $300,000!

                    Chema now works at Deluxe Madrid and has seen it transform from a film lab to digital facility. He talks about working with legend director Pedro Almodóvar who directed one of the biggest grossing Spanish films ever ‘The Skin I live in.’ We then discus how he has recently started to grade more TV including big shows for Netflix like the popular ‘Elite’

                    Topics discussed

                    • How he got started in the Industry
                    • Working with director Pedro Almodóvar (Listen for my awkward pronunciation)
                    • The transition from grading film to digital and from movies to TV
                    • How hard or easy is it too grade an HDR Netflix show?
                    • What is it like working on a Netflix show, could you do it?
                      • Deluxe Madrid
                      https://www.deluxe-spain.com/en
                      IMDB Chema Alba
                      https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1994118/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

                      53 min
                    • Color Tour Podcast Episode 12: Marc Wielage, Hollywood USA

                      Marc Wielage is a veteran Colorist based in Hollywood. He has been grading for 40 years and has the credits and stories to prove it. The chat starts at his shop in Hollywood before moving to legendary Hollywood restaurant Canters. Lots of people know him from the many different color forums he follows. Marc has helped many colorists at all levels, so this is a chance to get his backstory.

                      Topics discussed

                      • His grading shop is ‘Chroma’
                      • Working with directors Michael Mann, George Lucus and Russ Meyer (The impressions are fantastic)
                      • How he finds the time to be so prolific in many different color forums
                      • Marc’s knightmare session, we have all had them!

                        • www.chromahollywood.com

                        https://www.facebook.com/groups/900152487018899/

                        Vinegar Syndrome is the company selling the restorations on Blu-ray and HD streaming:

                        https://vinegarsyndrome.com/

                        Some of the film projects he has colored are on Blu-ray include Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Dances with Wolves, Die Hard, Cider House Rules, and about 250 others since 2002. He has finished about 100 for Vinegar Syndrome going back to 2014, mostly cult films from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

                        Vimeo page

                        https://vimeo.com/user28054796

                        1 hr 19 min

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                      Colorist Warren Eagles travels around the world to talk to working DI and digital color grading artists about their work.