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is based on how I shot the film and our
first discussions about the final aesthetic
- it's what Peter calls the 'look grade.' It's
interesting to do it with the director's
basic assembly in order to get consistency
in the grade. The first pass is much more
creative. The second pass, the 'match
grade,' is the technical process where
matching is 'resolved'; everything
matches - density, contrast and color.
The interesting thing in working this way
is that you can work very fast and show
changes to the director in real time. These
changes can be applied to the whole
movie in an instant."
Doyle adds, "It's really about
freeing up the look-development process
from the match-grading process. It's a
little cumbersome to match-grade on a
shot-by-shot basis and then, for example,
move the whole scene darker. Not all
shots will track, which means you have to
match-grade again. It's better to see how
the film works with it darker, for example,
and then lock the match grading."
Perhaps most crucially, Doyle
aimed to maintain Delbonnel's classical
approach to lighting. "A grade is two
things," the colorist says. "One is creative
- whether it's bright or dark, warm or
cold. The other is that it needs to
reproduce the lighting on set. There is so
much that happens on set that you can't
really do with a grade. If you over-grade
a scene, you can take the life out of it. It's
like a great classical-music sound mix,
when you try to capture the reverb and
the sound of the room." The colorist cites
the effect of light bounced from a
costume onto an actor's face. "You can't
put that sort of subtlety in with a color
grade, but if it's lit that way, you can
capture all the subtlety."
Three weeks before speaking to
AC, Delbonnel was in Albuquerque,
N.M., finishing work on the miniseries
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, his third
collaboration with the Coen brothers -
his first being a segment of the anthology
feature Paris, Je T'Aime. In discussing
simplicity and his classical approach to
filmmaking, the cinematographer notes,
"I use tungsten light a lot, but very basic
ones. Just PAR cans, Source Fours, 5Ks,
Mizars, Blondes, stuff like that. I'm not
really interested in LEDs. [I prefer] very
simple, not-high-end tech."
After working nearly back-toback on several recent projects,
Delbonnel happily confirms a similarly
classical approach to a well-deserved
production break: "I'm having some time
with my family."
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