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03.12.2024
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23.09.2024

Building ‘Crayon’ – An Artist-Focused Color Grading Boutique

Full episode notes and links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/color-grading-interview-daniel-stonehouse-crayon/ ====Experienced colorist Daniel Stonehouse owns and co-founded the boutique color grading studio Crayon in Melbourne, Australia. Throughout my detailed conversation with Dan, he shares a wealth of experience and practical insight on the art, craft, and business of color grading and what it takes to run a successful modern boutique shop. During our conversation, Dan emphasized adaptability, continuous learning, dedication, and a holistic approach to becoming an effective colorist. To this point, Dan offers some excellent wisdom to anyone managing color grading clients from ‘discovery to delivery’. You should consider perfecting the grading session and the lengthy discussions, negotiations, and planning preceding it. Plus, there are after-session processes, such as invoicing and generating visuals for promotion. (00:00) - Introduction (03:09) - The democratization of color grading (05:32) - The impact of Apple Color software (07:59) - Inspired by BEAN (10:25) - On being self-taught (13:25) - Dan's philosophy on grading (17:31) - FX Phd, Mixing Light, and online training (19:38) - You are a colorist until you tell yourself you're not (21:20) - It's not about the tools (24:25) - How did Crayon get to its current form? (27:22) - The end of the Post House era (33:26) - The Covid effect (34:33) - About colorist Abe Wynen (36:47) - It's not about being local anymore (38:31) - Remote freelance work vs a solid infrastructure (39:56) - Colleagues, competition, and self-confidence (46:57) - The blessing of limited time (48:56) - Getting into a flow state (53:13) - Paintings and photography as references (54:15) - Daniel's thoughts on 'Look creation' (56:08) - Grading under the look (01:04:10) - Don't get trapped by your workflow (01:08:04) - Matching shots (01:08:54) - Working on commercials (01:11:07) - Growing into the craft (01:15:04) - Evaluating a colorist's tendencies (01:17:47) - The trickiest color to work with.. (01:19:35) - What is next for Crayon? (01:22:35) - The importance of Producers (01:25:15) - Being a 'facility colorist' vs freelance (01:31:11) - Wrapping up...

23.09.2024

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1 Std. 33 Min.
19.07.2023

From Freelancer to Facility Owner With Senior Colourist CJ Dobson, CSI

Melbourne-based Colourist CJ Dobson, CSI shares how her recently opened colour facility, Mood Labs Film Looks, offers her clients new solutions to old workflow problems. We discuss CJ’s journey from being ‘queen of the conform’ at Digital Pictures to freelancing for a decade to becoming a business owner, some of the unique future-facing services Mood Labs offers, and the challenges of succeeding as a woman in a male-dominated industry. The full landing page for this episode, including links, can be found at: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/interview-senior-colourist-cj-dobson-csi/

19.07.2023

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1 Std. 3 Min.
31.10.2024

How Much Should Post Production Pros Earn? Does AI Threaten Our Industry?

Full episode notes plus additional links mentioned in this video related to working as a post production professional are at this video's homepage: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/office-hours-live-how-much-are-other-colorists-earning/ === On this edition of Office Hours Live, host and Mixing Light CEO Patrick Inhofer is joined by post-production veteran and Mixing Light contributor Katie Hinsen. They tackle the thorny topic of what you should charge for your creative services and how those rates stack up against others in your field. For the past nine years, Katie has spearheaded the Post Production Survey, which collects confidential and anonymous salary and working conditions data to provide a valuable snapshot of the market's current state. ===

31.10.2024

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1 Std. 1 Min.
03.12.2024

Voices From The Set – An Interview With 30-Year Veteran Gaffer Rick Kalivoda

Mixing Light Contributor Rich Roddman CSI interviews Rick Kalivoda, a 30-year gaffer and on-set veteran. Kalivoda talks about his craft in executing the DP's vision, the emergence of LED lighting, and its challenges. This starts a new Interview series featuring on-set crafts that affect post production workflows. Full notes and additional links, including the video, are on this Insight's homepage: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/interview-rick-kalivoda-gaffer-lighting/ Related Mixing Light Insights The Essential Gear For An On-Set Color Correction DIT Cart – Rich Roddman C.S.I. shows how he sets up his Cart for on-set color correction… and the thinking behind his choices.Part 4 of a DIT series.Being Flexible As A DIT: The Always Evolving DIT Cart – We all know that a good cart is essential to a DIT’s kit. But what if there is no room for your cart? What options do you have when size becomes a cause for concern? (00:00) - Introduction (00:43) - What is a Gaffer? (02:57) - A typical example of a Gaffer's work (05:29) - CRI vs SSI (07:02) - The evolution of LED lights (09:03) - Why Tungsten is the industry reference (12:02) - Light fixtures as the painter's palette (14:46) - Conversations with DPs (17:22) - LED Volume Walls as lighting instruments (19:55) - How has large dynamic range changed lighting? (25:20) - Lighting instruments & lens/camera choices (27:47) - Tungsten is our butter (27:53) - Tungsten - it's butter for chefs (29:15) - Are young DPs missing out on Tungsten? (31:20) - Managing Depth of Field (34:04) - Lighting is Logarithmic (36:30) - How to become a gaffer (37:32) - Advice for PAs (39:12) - Passing details from set to post (40:17) - Key & Fill Ratios (43:07) - The value of Makeup Artists (43:55) - What monitor to look at? (47:38) - What's Rick's trusted measuring device? (48:18) - Value of the on-set monitor (51:10) - Zero-budget lighting (56:45) - Replacing practical lights (59:39) - Wireless DMX vs Wifi and apps (01:01:05) - Essential roles on set (01:02:00) - Wrap Up

03.12.2024

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1 Std. 8 Min.
16.09.2023

Kali Bateman and Emily Reid: How a Senior Colorist mentored her assistant

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.com Full episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/kali-bateman-emily-reid-color-timer-podcast/--- I worked with Kali Bateman many years ago in Australia, and I jumped at the opportunity to speak with both her and Emily about the relationship between the Colorist and Color Assistant and their new venture, 'The Colour Suite'. (Yes, that’s how Color is spelled in other parts of the world!) Kali Bateman is a Senior Colorist for film and television and has been involved with many amazing projects, including Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Jungle Cruise, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Wonder Woman: 1984, and Baz Luhrman’s masterpiece Elvis. Emily Reid began her career as a camera assistant and freelance cinematographer. She crossed over into post-production as an assistant colorist. Under Kali’s supervision, Emily has grown into the role of Colorist and led numerous grading projects. - - -Editor: Arthur DitnerExecutive Producer: https://mixinglight.comSupporting Sponsor: https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/Podcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com

16.09.2023

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18 Min.
12.07.2024

Artist Stuart Semple – Color as Inspiration, Performance Art, And Rebellion

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.com Full episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/stewart-semple-color-as-performance-art/ But the Color Timer Shirt, now for sale: https://vincenttaylorcolor.myshopify.com/===It’s fanboy time again. You get to see me barely contain my excitement as I speak to a hero of mine, the incredible artist Stuart Semple. I ask some tough questions about art and color. Strike that: none of the questions are tough, but the answers are wonderful. Stuart Semple is a multidisciplinary British artist who works in painting, sculpture, happenings, technology, and activism. He is well known for his sociologically engaged works, which often discuss youth politics, accessibility, and democracy. Listen to Stuart and I discuss creation, emotion, performance art, and color.- - -Editor: Rich RoddmanExecutive Producer: https://mixinglight.comPodcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com (00:00) - - Introduction (01:56) - - Why do we need Art? (03:33) - - What's up with Anish Kapoor and black paint? (05:03) - - Stuart's pinkest-pink, blackest-black rebellion (06:26) - - How music and color interact to drive Stuart's art (08:50) - - How do you turn off your logical thinking? (09:56) - - Where does your knowledge of color come from? (10:57) - - Can someone learn how to use color? (12:02) - - Who inspires Stuart? (13:04) - - How do you know when a painting is finished? (14:04) - - About critics and the value of criticism (15:24) - - Loving bad art (15:52) - - The role of provocation or shock (17:40) - - Is Stuart's career path intentional or intuitive? (18:58) - - Goodbye and thanks

12.07.2024

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20 Min.
07.12.2023

Colorist Paul Harrison: Winning Awards on both sides of the Atlantic

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.com Full episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/the-color-timer-podcast-interview-with-paul-harrison/======Season 1 of The Color Timer Podcast wraps: We chat with Paul Harrison, a colorist renowned for his award-winning short-form work and films. Paul Harrison’s professional journey has covered just about every corner of the industry that could possibly be painted 18% gray. Currently, Paul is the Senior Colorist and Partner at Residence Pictures and has completed the visually stunning The Killing Kind (Paramount +) and The Gallows Pole (BBC). From humble beginnings as an on-set runner, to learning the dark arts of telecine with a Pandora Pogle, to honing the look of top-notch brands like Guinness, Levi’s, and BMW; Paul shares his insights and his inspiration. One of the world’s top colorists, Paul Harrison has been continually ranked amongst the top three finishing artists in the UK throughout his career, frequently topping the Televisual Best Colorist polls as well as winning successive BTAA awards for best colorist. Chatting with Paul feels like chatting with an old friend, he quickly puts you at ease and I would imagine that this is something that would make those long hours in a color session so much easier.- - -Editor: Arthur DitnerExecutive Producer: https://mixinglight.comSupporting Sponsor: https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/Podcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com

07.12.2023

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21 Min.
13.09.2024

Jason Bowdach CSI: Reverse Engineering Color With A Creative Mindset

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.com Full episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/colorist-jason-bowdach-pixeltools-color-timer-podcast/ Buy the Color Timer Shirt, now for sale: https://vincenttaylorcolor.myshopify.com/===Today, I will be speaking to Jason Bowdach. Jason is a fellow contributor here on Mixing Light. He is a colorist and online editor with an impressive CV that includes major networks such as Fox and Disney. Jason creates a suite of colorist tools through his company, PixelTools. Jason shares what inspires him to create software offerings for the industry and his approach to a new project. He also has an interesting view on AI / Machine Learning and its likely impact on our industry. This is putting the shoe on the other foot at last. Jason has his very cool podcast, Color & Coffee, on which I was a guest, so now it’s time for Jason to answer some of my questions! Outside of Pixel Tools and his own grading work, Jason also teaches about color and post-workflow, so he keeps fairly busy, to say the least. - - -Editor: Rich RoddmanExecutive Producer: https://mixinglight.comPodcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com (00:00) - - Introduction (02:29) - - Starting the Timer: What is Pixel Tools? (05:27) - - How LUTs inspired PixelTools' first product (08:08) - - How do you reverse engineering a LUT? (11:36) - - How Jason got into DCTLs (14:53) - - Exploring filmic contrast (18:20) - - What is Jason's take on AI? (20:23) - - Closing remarks

13.09.2024

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22 Min.
24.06.2023

15 Minutes With Award-Winning Colorist Ana Escorse

Full episode notes and links: mixinglight.com===Ana Escorse is a senior colorist at Toronto’s Studio Feather. Ana was born and raised in Brazil and was influenced by her exposure to Brazillian Baroque art at a young age. Last year Ana was recognized at the Filmlight Color Awards, where she won the award for Best Music Video. This year she returns to the color awards as a judge. During our conversation, Ana discusses the industry’s challenges, her influences, and what it’s like to be a judge. - - -Producer: Kayla UribeEditor: Arthur DitnerExecutive Producer: https://mixinglight.comSupporting Sponsor: https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/Podcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com

24.06.2023

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20 Min.
04.10.2024

Artist Anna Evans: We need to talk about Magenta

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.com Full episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/what-a-contemporary-artist-can-teach-colorists-about-color/ Buy the Color Timer Shirt, now for sale: https://vincenttaylorcolor.myshopify.com/===The Color Timer podcast aims to speak with professionals who work with color. Yet, so often, I fall into the habit of speaking with professionals closer to my field of film and television, but I really do want to cast the further and learn from professionals working in other disciplines—that is what we are doing in this episode! Anna Evans is a contemporary New Zealand landscape painter, children’s book illustrator, mural painter, and games artist. With so many talents at her disposal, who better to learn about color from? I discovered Anna while watching an Instagram video she made about color mixing that challenges some of the fundamental things we learned in art class as children. I was totally hooked by the way Anna explained things. Her passion for color and the threads of science that keep popping up throughout our conversation make this an episode for both technicians and artists. Anna’s work is beautiful, so after listening to our chat, please check it out through the links below. It made me wonder, whose art most inspires and provokes you to try new color grading techniques?- - -Editor: Rich RoddmanExecutive Producer: https://mixinglight.comPodcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com (00:00) - - Introduction (01:12) - - Anna's background and journey (02:08) - - And... the timer begins (02:48) - - The painter's primary colors (05:18) - - Mixing with light (08:08) - - Anna's color palette (09:02) - - Painting birds (12:28) - - New inspiration (14:11) - - Painting as a jazz performance (16:19) - - What kind of paint do you use? (16:53) - - Do you force yourself to paint? (17:59) - - Is there a color that you tend to avoid? (19:09) - - Thoughts on the King Charles portrait (21:36) - - Get the Color Timer T-Shirt!

04.10.2024

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23 Min.

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Building ‘Crayon’ – An Artist-Focused Color Grading Boutique

From Freelancer to Facility Owner With Senior Colourist CJ Dobson, CSI

How Much Should Post Production Pros Earn? Does AI Threaten Our Industry?

Voices From The Set – An Interview With 30-Year Veteran Gaffer Rick Kalivoda

Kali Bateman and Emily Reid: How a Senior Colorist mentored her assistant

Artist Stuart Semple – Color as Inspiration, Performance Art, And Rebellion

Colorist Paul Harrison: Winning Awards on both sides of the Atlantic

Jason Bowdach CSI: Reverse Engineering Color With A Creative Mindset

15 Minutes With Award-Winning Colorist Ana Escorse

Artist Anna Evans: We need to talk about Magenta

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