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thought, 'That scene cuts to winter in
the next one,' and I wanted winter to be
very neutral, very bleak, so when spring
comes on later, you get the feeling of
warmth." When Olive's suicide attempt
unfolds more fully in episode four, the
saturated look is dropped, and instead
it's neutral and somber. "It's a subtle
change, but a definite one," says Elmes.
Such choices were made scene by
scene during color timing at Encore in
Hollywood, where Elmes spent a total
of about three weeks working with
colorist Pankaj Bajpai, who worked on a
Baselight system with 2K scans from an
Arriscan. Previously, in New York,
Bajpai set up a mini DI suite at Deluxe,
where he and Elmes could access the
edit files from L.A. They skimmed
through the whole series and set basic
looks for key scenes and various weather
conditions. "These were trial balloons,
but it gave us a chance to talk for a
couple of days and play with the material," says Elmes. When the real work
came a few weeks later, "it put Pankaj
way ahead of the game. As we locked
the cuts and could start feeding him
specific scenes, he already had the
ground rules down."
As Elmes summarizes, "The
center line of the movie is a very neutral,
honest rendition of faces. Occasionally
I'd push the saturation up and make it
more like a sunny fall day, or pull it back
and make it more like winter, so there's
less color and a hush of coolness without being blue. But I'd call it subtle. I did
it with the intention of creating a little
distance between the end of one scene
and the beginning of the next."
Looking back, Elmes is gratified
to know that he and Cholodenko
accomplished their original plan. "The
things we talked about early on held
true for the whole movie," he says. "To
hear her say that, yes, the looks we
created in the DI really fulfilled her
expectations in preproduction was a
very good feeling."
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