Hi Kieran,
no big postproduction on this trailer. It was made very quick and dirty on a mac using Final Cut pro 4. So a bit contrast boosting and some fast blurr-masks, but nothing special.
Most of the look was actually created in camera, using a samll but fine ballpark of light equipmet from ARRI Rental Berlin:
We had three 2K Studiolights, one 4-feet KinoFlo, three 300W, three 800W and three Dedolights 150W. In addition a lot of Grip-stuff, like Magic-Arm and C-Stands. It was all free, because some of our crew members work at this rentalhouse sometimes and ARRI is in germany very well kown to support aspiring filmmakers with little to no budget. So a lot of the 10.000 Euros were dropped for the catering of 13 Crew Memebers over a shooting period of three months.
Except of the built in ND Filter, there was no filtration on the camera-lens at all.
Because of the extremly deep focus of this small videochips, I always shot with the lens wide open to decrease the focus range. This made it sometimes very hard for me to adjust the foucs, because there was no camera-assistent for that. But the resulting images were absolutly worth the pain.
Shooting with f-stops around 1.6 to 2.8 it is actually very helpfull having that high shutter speeds. On the set, we had a very good calibrated sony monitor, which was very carefully watched by the director. So the last word about exposure wasn´t given to a lightmeter or a number on my camera, but to the look on that monitor.
The light style was at the start of the prodcution set to a very high glossy look, doing as much backlighting, kinoflo-actors-face-flattering-soft-lighting and warm colorfilters on the lamps as possible. In addition I sometimes cheated with the whitebalance to give the images that red look.
Thanks for the interest,
Christian.