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October 5, 2006

Detail Beyond Compare

I have arrived - in London.

Currently I am sitting in the darkest room in the world, the only light coming from my screen and keyboard and, of course, the cinema screen 12feet in front of me.

This is the first time I have been to a cinema grade. All the grading I have done in the past has been for video. So while this is very exciting and a new experience, the fact that we are going down the digital intermediate route means that the process of grading is actually quite similar to that of doing a grade for video, just with a bigger screen and a more powerful computer. But the appearance of things is very similar.

What is blindingly cool is seeing things done on this scale. The relationship you have with the image is so totally different from dealing with something on a small scale that it's hard to understand how you actually can get to the end of the grading process. Simply the level of detail that you are responding to and working with means the amount of work you could do feels infinite on first impression.

Of course, what I haven't brought into account in this stream of consciousness is that we are watching this film one frame at a time, one shot at a time, one scene at a time - in that order. It is also a piece of material that we have grown to know implicitly, so there is a relationship that David, Giles and Max (the colourist) have with the film that will not, cannot compare to the experience anyone else will ever have.

Babble babble babble. This must be very boring for some of you. I'll shutup now. And go and continue being fascinated, and also maybe have a snooze, it's like being in the womb this place, particularly with the sounds of the other edit suites making slight impact on our room (I imagine!).

Posted by colin kennedy at October 5, 2006 2:39 PM

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