Color used in Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

You need to be a little more media savvy. No were does it say that the product Color was used on the film O Brother Where Art Thou.

o| TonyTony |o

The claim to fame that "Brother" has is that it is sort of in a dead-heat with "Chicken Run" as the first total DI.

This is a cut and paste from the CML archive:

Here's the post path according to the people who worked on the project: The cut negative (A and B rolls) was graded using a Pandora MegaDef color corrector and transferred on the Spirit Datacine at 1828x1556. The anamorphic squeeze was applied digitally in the Spirit for efficiency and to save a generation. Color grading was done using a Cineon-calibrated SGI display. The opticals were all done digitally using Cineon software. The digital effects shots were graded on a Philips Specter Virtual Datacine at Warner Brothers and then tweaked in Cineon.

Grading was a real challenge, according to Julius Friede, senior colorist at Cinesite. Roger wanted some fairly extreme changes, particularly in the greens.

Using a Kodak Lightning 2 film recorder, the completed reels were recorded to film -- an internegative for making show prints, including what was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, and an IP for subsequent release printing.

The Spirit transfers were done to data, as 10 bit logarithmic Cineon files -- in other words NOT HD. Cinesite captures and manipulates the density range of the negative. Because of that, the range was there for Roger Deakins to do additional tweaking in the lab if he wanted to.

Unquote.

It is widely mentioned that Deakins was happy enough although not delirious, but traditional bleach-bypass was not going to get him anywhere near where he wanted to be -- actually reminds me of my very first experience with grading a feature (1994 in a daVinci), and we were in the same situation --a very warm, dry dusty look was the target, and basically the countryside was emerald green, similar to the original shoot values that they got on Brother. Its almost trivial now if you've got the bit-depth.

But Silicon Color did introduce Final Touch in 2003:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mim0EIN/is_2003_Sept_12/ai107672843
which Apple bought, and the rest, as they say...

jPo

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Ummm......

Huh?

JP, you're expecting professionals here, keep it simple........

... is history. 😉

[Color was absorbed, like Shake, Logic, and FCP into the Apple fold and bundled to make the Mac a destination platform - I guess that's the short answer].


+odd