◗ Master Plans Left: Harry has another clandestine meeting with David. Right: Damon and the filmmakers at work in Lower Manhattan. do the timing in L.A. and periodically do simultaneous sessions with George, who could see real-time color corrections onscreen in New York. This also worked well when Mark wanted to check visual-effects shots against our work-in-progress; he could insert shots into scenes we had begun to time and see how things were blending before he made final versions of those shots. That helped enormously in making adjustments to both the overall grade and the visual-effects shots.” Timing the Escher Stairs began with Toll’s pre-grade of the greenscreen plate and the two background plates (one for each rooftop shot). The Phosphene team then combined those plates with a fourth, showing Adjustment Bureau agents coming up the stairs toward David and Elise at the end of the shot, and added CG stairs and CG floor tiles. “After many months of fine-tuning and clean-up, we arrived at a decent-looking composite that then needed to be dialed in to match the rest of the film,” says Russell. “To enable 36http://www.kinoflo.com http://www.kinoflo.com