Music video: Rococode Banks

Posted by mateodimarano on Jan 19, 2015 in Color grading, Music video, Resolve | 0 comments

This fall I worked on this music video for the Canadian band Rococode. Five Thousand Fingers, a Montreal based studio, directed the video for the first single;e Banks. It was shot in various location on the Montreal island by DP John Londono on a Red Epic.

In the video, we see different portraits of people living quite different lives that will somehow gather to find their way through a portal. We tried to stay true to the cloudy and mellow mood of the shoot. The studio shots were very intimate and we tried to keep the dimmed and closed atmosphere.

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Here is the video:

Rococode – Banks from Fivethousand Fingers on Vimeo.

Here is a quick breakdown of the grades I did:

BANKS by Rococode color grading breakdown from Mathieu Marano on Vimeo.

Web: Samsung Galaxy Note 4

Posted by mateodimarano on Jan 15, 2015 in Color grading, Gig, Resolve, Web | 0 comments

Every time I work on a project with ValléeDuhamel it’s a lot of fun. This time it was to recreate the creative environment enabled by the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 pen as an artist would see it.

Shot on Epic Dragon by DP JP Bernier, the 45 spot is all real hands, objects and gestures … no 3D models. Il was edited and comped by Josh Sherrett @ Mile End Workshop who used some morph and comp tricks to fuse the take together.

The grading  gig consisted of giving the scene a very pictural and analog look while playing on the edge of the cartoon universe. I had to match the various background, match the color of the closely tinted objects and fill mask quite a few flying objects.

That’s when Resolve becomes really handy. I was able to give a node for nearly object and animate them independently. The non-linear nature of the node tree also enabled me to efficiently key some hard-to-get colours.

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Samsung – Creativity at work from Vallée Duhamel on Vimeo.

And here is the making of:

Making-of : Creativity at work from Vallée Duhamel on Vimeo.

TVC: McDonald’s Hockey restaurant

Posted by mateodimarano on Dec 22, 2014 in Color grading, Gig, Resolve, Tv commercial | 0 comments

Hockey season is going strong in Montreal ans McDonald’s just opened a new restaurent next to the Bell Center. They hired Cossette to create a tv commercial for the event. Jet Films produced the 15 sec TVC shot on F55 by director and DP Alexis Durand-Brault.

I was called for a day of color grading at Jet Films on their DaVinci Resolve station. This was a pretty straight forward gig. The biggest struggle was to animate mask over the menus to make the light one by one. Otherwise simple masks were used to isolates the team members from the background that had to be remove or hidden as much as possible.

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Short movie: Le Pédophile

Posted by mateodimarano on Dec 3, 2014 in Color grading, Film, Resolve | 0 comments

After working on the Reebok TVC I was asked by DP and producer Jean-Philippe Bernier to work on a short movie directed by Ara Ball. Produced by Les Enfants Terribles, this short movie titled “Le Pédophile”.

The movie is about revenge and acts of abuse happening in two different eras: the 80s ant the 2000s. Ball really had an interesting approach to this hard subject.

For this gig I did a first grading on the Resolve station at PMT because they have a nice and calibrated Christie DCI compliant projector. We did a first approval for the P3 version then exported the DCPs for the screening. A second session was schedules in the DCI room to convert the DCP-ready master to REC 709. I used a P3 to REC709 I created to get 90% on the job done then did the remaining of the job by hand.

Then I went back to my home setup to do the online and versions for TV, web and promo.

Here is the trailer:

Le Pedophile (trailer 2014) from Les Enfants Terribles Home Video on Vimeo.

TVC: Guignolée des médias 2014

Posted by mateodimarano on Nov 26, 2014 in Color grading, Mistika, Tv commercial | 0 comments

I’ve been asked by Philippe Fafard at Slik if I’d be available to grade the 2014 TVC campaign for La Guignolée des Médias and I obliged.  La Guignolée des Médias happens once a year in Quebec. On that day, all the broadcasters, papers and other medias gather to raise money and food for the ones in need. So when Slik asked me if I’d be interested in the project, I volunteered.

The TVC was edited in 3 version: a 60sec, a 30sec and a 15sec. They concept was created but TamTam/TWBA, produced by JetFilms and directed by Mélanie Charbonneau. It was shot on ARRI Alexa by Mathieu Laverdière in Log C. This is one of the only time where I had to desaturate and lower the contrast of a LogC shot tv commercial. I was suggest to cut on saturation to push even more the feeling of emotional distress of the main character, a mother who looses her job and struggles with the daily task of feeding her children. In the final, it was very efficient.

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This gig was also my first TVC gig on Mistika. After trying ourselves at smoother project we decided that it was time to push the Mistika. We graded the 3 versions of the edit quite well and integrated the logos end texts. We really pushed it when time came to time to paint out the advertisements on the side of a moving bus and the logo on a hat. Well, actually, it was pretty easy using the integrated compositing and tracking tools. The paint tool also came in handy to remove the ads.

Wa also stabilized a couple of shots. Mistika has been very efficient to stabilize on axis while just smoothing the other ones.

Tv series: Ouisurf en Afrique

Posted by mateodimarano on Nov 23, 2014 in Color grading, Resolve, TV Series | 0 comments

Starting this Tuesday, November 25th, you’ll be able yo watch the 2nd season of Ouisurf on Evasion. This 13 episode surf show is now well know for it’s lifestyle approach to the travel show. Produced by Benjamin Rochette, the mastermind behind the Ouisurf branding, the show brings us to Africa where we discover the most beautiful surf spots, the beaches, the deep African culture and the people.

The show was beautifuly shot on 5D mmIII and the occasional GoPro by DP and director Jean-Philippe Pariseau (Parish). As we speak, I’ve graded the first 8 shows on Resolve 11. This is also the first show that was finished completely in Resolve for online editing, subtitling and packaging. I was surprised by how well it went.

Here is the teaser for this 2nd season:

OuiSurf en Afrique from ouisurf.ca on Vimeo.

To know more about Ouisurf, you can jump to their website at www.ouisurf.ca and you can load their interactive website during the show. It will sync with the broadcast and show additional content during the commercial breaks. It’s right here at Ouisurf.tv