Color Pipeline: Setting the Look in Production

This new in-person workshop is designed for Directors, Cinematographers, DITs, Post Supervisors, VFX, Conform Artists, Assistant Colorists, Colorists and Editors.

We’ll begin with the general principles of color science without getting too technical or theoretical. Kevin effortlessly collaborates with cinematographers and directors to ensure optimal capture of the intended visual mood. He serves as the bridge between the creative team and the technical crew.

We discuss the psychology of seeing and the language of color. Production is the main focus, and we’ll cover how camera settings affect the image. Then we explore how colorists and cinematographers tackle Look Management with color science, LUTs and CDLs and the importance of consistency. By the end of the course, participants will understand the factors that need to be agreed and documented in workflow documents so that the Director’s vision is achieved, editors and VFX can monitor images consistent with the intended Look, and the delivery requirements are met.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

• How our eyes are tricked, and how color influences our mood and emotions.
• The Defining Color - Exploring color from both technical and artistic points of view.
• Managing Color - Understand the differences between the appliance of science and the art of the craft.
• Setting the Look in Production - Learn how cinematographers and colorists implement looks. The more you look the more you see.
• Workflow Documents - How to mastermind the masterplan.
• Meeting Standards - Is there anything standard about standards?

• What color is and how we perceive it.
• What is the difference between a color space and a transfer function?
• Scene-referred and output-referred workflows.
• About display color spaces
• About EOTFs
• How to use ShowLUTs and CDLs.
• How to make a workflow document.
• Why some standards are not standard.

All students on this course receive an ICA Certificate.