◗ A Fierce Friendship The crew positions a crane atop a cliff. "I've done a lot of work in New Zealand," says Bazelli. "The landscapes are just beautiful." 50 grade, we used windows and graduated filters to shape and darken the surroundings of the frame so that it doesn't feel like afternoon. It's not anything unknown to filmmakers, but we may have used it a little more than normal due to the limitations of our schedule." The final grade was performed at EFilm in Hollywood, where supervising digital colorist Mitch Paulson worked with Autodesk's Lustre. Visual effects were all delivered at 2K, and Paulson's final output was a 2048x858 EXR file. Bazelli is quick to note his strong belief in proactive grading, and thus in employing an on-set dailies colorist. In the case of Pete's Dragon, Pete Harrow was stationed in a truck outfitted with a full Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve system, where he was able to set a near-final look for every day of footage before it was sent off to the studio or editorial. "I'm a big fan of grading dailieshttp://www.schneideroptics.com