{"id":151,"date":"2016-07-21T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T00:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmconvert.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2016-07-26T10:10:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:10:49","slug":"color-grading-science-documentaries-mark-wyatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/color-grading-science-documentaries-mark-wyatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Grading science documentaries &#8211; Mark Wyatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wyatt Visuals - FilmConvert Demo Reel\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/175474882?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mark Wyatt won the 2014 FilmConvert ColorUp competition with his film &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/filmconvert.com\/videos\/detail?SearchText=river&amp;SkipCount=1&amp;userVideoId=338&amp;totalCount=19\">Restoring the Atleo River<\/a>&#8216;. Since then, he&#8217;s continued to work on amazing projects in and around Vancouver,\u00a0BC, which has yielded some of the spectacular images you can see in his videos.<\/p>\n<h2>Mark Wyatt &#8211; the interview<\/h2>\n<p>In 2006, I graduated from the University of Victoria with a BFA in Visual Arts where I studied Drawing and Photography. After graduating I ended up getting a job in an unrelated field for a few years. Around 2008, I remember seeing some of the first footage from the D90 and 5d Mark II and being completely mesmerized by what you could now create with these large sensor cameras.<\/p>\n<p>I knew instantly that I had to be involved in some way with film or video. So, I quit my job, maxed out my credit card for some of this new gear and have been now working full time for the past 7 years as a DoP and Editor on the westcoast of Canada. My work is primarily commercial but I also shoot and edit short documentaries for a few non-profit organizations on the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Once I started working with the Blackmagic Cameras I realized I needed the ability to transform the Prores log files into an image that had more contrast and color, and (I hoped) had the look and feel of film. Since I am not a colorist, grading was all new to me and instead of starting from scratch within Resolve I wanted an easier solution for some of my projects. FilmConvert made this possible.<\/p>\n<p>For our short documentaries, and in particular &#8220;Bringing Back the Light&#8221;, I hope to make them look as if they were shot on film. I think a lot of the Science documentaries from the 70&#8217;s have a great look and feel to them, and by using FilmConvert I am able to somewhat mimic this. I have also found that FilmConvert is a great tool to help match different footage. For instance, if I have to shoot a two camera interview with different cameras, the camera profiles within FilmConvert allow me to more easily match the footage.<\/p>\n<p>For BMCC and Ursa Mini 4.6k footage within Premiere, I tend to use either the FJ 8553 ET or KD 5207 Vis3 stocks, at 80-100% for both color and curve, and I usually have the grain set at 20%. I also sometimes increase the saturation slightly depending on the desired look for the shot. I will then do further minor adjustments with the Exposure and Temperature sliders. If exposure or white balance needs fixing in the image, I will do that first before adding the plugin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Wyatt won the 2014 FilmConvert ColorUp competition with his film &#8216;Restoring the Atleo River&#8216;. Since then, he&#8217;s continued to work on amazing projects in and around Vancouver,\u00a0BC, which has yielded some of the spectacular images you can see in his videos. Mark Wyatt &#8211; the interview In 2006, I graduated from the University of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/color-grading-science-documentaries-mark-wyatt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Color Grading science documentaries &#8211; Mark Wyatt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,7,9,14],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-user-showcase","tag-aerial","tag-color-grading","tag-inspiration","tag-landscape","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}