Largely inspired by Rob Chiu and Chris Hewitt's titles for OFFF New York 2007. (I chose to do something different with the sound/music though, and the visual material is more homogenous/limited, it was all shot on one day, in more or less the same location). Shot in Birmingham, UK March 2013 Photography: Alan Dolhasz and Ed Lawes Sound recordist: Alan Dolhasz (some camera sound was used too, but layered on top of better quality audio). Music/Sound Post Production: Ed Lawes Editing/Grading/Graphics: Ed Lawes Produced by Alan Dolhasz and Ed Lawes for 144 Picture, Sound & Music ©2013 1-4-4.com

Grades of another Blackmagic Cinema Camera screen grab. Originally shot by John Brawley. Downloaded from johnbrawley.wordpress.com The grade called 'balanced' is the one to compare with John Brawley's own Resolve grade. I used scopes in Color Finesse (in After Effects) to balance the shot and clamped the highlights very slightly (to dampen down that window highlight in between the model's palm and face). Overall my 'balanced' grade is cooler in temperature than John Brawleys. More my taste, not that keen on very warm or super saturated grades, I blame British weather. Probably went a bit too cool with it perhaps but not had a chance to check it on different monitors yet. There are various other grades, some including 35mm grain. Don't have time to explain all of those. One thing would like to try if I had more time would be to use secondaries to bring out the colours in her hair grips/rolls and eye makeup thing (no idea what it's called sorry). Regarding the image quality. I like it a lot. Lots of grading options and you can push it a long way. I noticed some stuck pixels when grading it (you can see them in some black areas) but apparently this is just a pre-production issue. Main issue for me is there's fairly unpleasant red/green noise in the blacks. Quite noticeable when the blacks are lifted, quite apparent in the tone remapped version for instance. Might be a pre-production issue again and whatever it would clean up easily in Neat Video or Denoiser etc (not ideal though obviously). Also note this wasn't graded on a proper calibrated broadcast monitor (can't justify buying one unfortunately as colour grading is only something we do on our own web video work). Used a standard 23in Samsung monitor and Color Finesse scopes. Graded by Ed Lawes for 144 Picture, Sound & Music 1-4-4.com Music by Ed Lawes (flute) and Mike McInerney (shakuhachi) Engineered by Zlatko Barackscai at Birmingham University UK.

A few test grades using one of John Brawley's screen grabs from the new Blackmagic Cinema Camera. You can download them here... http://johnbrawley.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/blackmagic-cinema-camera-lets-take-it-from-the-top Apparently the lens was a Canon 15-85mm, presuming it's this one.. Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Looks a bit soft in the corners but for budget lens it looks surprisingly good (on this camera anyway). Graded in AE as if this was video footage rather than a still. Included versions of each grade with 35mm grain over the top. Thanks for John Brawley for sharing the screen grabs. Grading and music by Ed Lawes for 144 Picture, Sound & Music. ©2012.