Dissatisfied with the Grade

[Adam Howden]

Hi All,

 

I just finished my first TVC shoot on super 16mm, it was a three day shoot with 4-5 TVC cut from the footage. I was of course wraped to get the opurtunity to shoot it. Whilst some of it looks great other parts don't look that great - I'm sure I'm just looking at it through from an overly self critical perspective but was just wondering if anyone had some advice on it.

 

I was uable to attend the final grade and essentially it looks the same as the one light with a bit of the saturation pulled out of it. Personally I feel like the final grade is really safe overall. But there are a couple of shots where the light was dropping quite quickle outside and I had to keep dropping the light inside to keep up with it. This was of course all happening at a pretty radip rate near the end of the day, essentially the interior looks lit, I personally think that with a bit of tweaking, like bringing the mids down etc the shots would be fine.

 

Whats the protocol on this, it goes out to tape tomorrow and I'm not sure if I should say anything to the producer?

 

Any thoughts,

 

Sincerely,

 

Adam Howden.

Melb, Australia.

[Dominik Muench]

may i ask where you did the grading ? at cutting edge ?

 

pretty hard to say, did you have a contract with the production company/ producer that mentions somethign about your rights ?

 

out of the blue i would say that the producer has the finaly word, but it really depends on the agreements you guys had.

 

cheers,

 

dom

Edited July 13, 2006 by Dmuench

[Adam Howden]

Hi Dom,

 

The Grade was done at Digital Pictures, in Melbourne, Australia.

[Dominik Muench]

ok, i think they graded a music video i shot.

 

my producer n director flew down there and did the grade there cause it was cheaper than cutting edge brisbane. i was quite happy with the look. but thats always a 50:50 chance i guess, whenever i can i try to attend the grading.