ALLISON

BTW How do I do that? I actually tried to add my full name but it wouldn't allow me to proceed. Guess it doesn't like that I have two last names!

Thanks Phil. This is more along the lines of what I'm after. The Black and white contrast is not too grainy if at all and the colors are def muted and pastel looking. When you say "clipping some of the whites on the bins" what were the original colors? Pink? Does this mean you can isolate an object and affect it's color while not affecting the overall image? If so I would want this felixibility. I am trying to do what they diid in Pleasantville by making the use of color sympbolic but I don't want the image totaly black and white cause when I bring in the color in that case it tends to look cheesy.

After doing some lengthy research I discovered exactly what I want to do on this next film of mine. I really enjoyed the choices of Oliver Stapleton on THE GRIFTERS and I'm trying to incorporate them on my next film (a short). For the initial scenes of the film I would like to replicate the look of the 1989 film THE GRIFTERS, in it they used a bleach bypass, yet it wasn't as grainy (as the film SEVEN where they did skip bleach), and the whites were white and blacks black, but the colors in between were pastel and muted, unless primary and in that case they were darkened by the contrast. I would like to achieve a B&W and color mixing I would like to start out with the image very desaturated and muted colors, but with high contrast almost to a virtual black and white. Then gradually I would like to begin re-saturating the colors and adjusting the contrast from scene to scene until basically at the end and in the final scene the image is heavily saturated in color and luminance. My major problem is that I will not be shooting on film! I will be shooting HD P2 so trying to simulate this process in post is a bit of a mystery to me because all the research discusses this process being applied to either the negative or the print. The only mention of simulating this on a digital format is through various Editing Programs such as Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro, but I am wondering if I can do anything during production (with gels or lenses) to make sure I can achieve the same "look" to help flexibility in post. I'm sure the ranges of these programs are not what is available through a post house. Am I right there? Has anyone tried to do this using HD? Sorry for the long message. tks, Allison