Tv series: Ouisurf en Afrique
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
Colo: Mathieu Marano ilovehue.net
Motion Design : Fokus Productions fokusproductions.ca
Productions ouisurf.ca Musique : Hearts like ours – The Naked and Famous youtube.com/watch?v=gqUJdcCjUIA
DaVinci Resolve 11 shortcut cheat sheet
Here is an updated version on the Resolve shortcut cheat sheet I did a while ago. This one is up te date with the latest 11.1 shortcuts.
Feel free to share an use it while crediting my website: www.ilovehue.net
Click the link to download the file: Resolve11shortcuts_ilovehue
And here is a JPG version to use as desktop background/wallpaper (2560×1600): http://ilovehue.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Resolve11shortcuts_ilovehue21.jpg
Short: The Rotten Monk
The Rotten Monk is a nice black and white piece I graded for Omar Antonio Iturriaga. It was his final project at the Mel Oppenheim Film School.
In his words:
A surreal dark comedy exploiting the b-film genre in which a young monk must endure the trials of the Holy Forest while being guided through by an old and enigmatic character.
Here is the teaser:
The Rotten Monk Trailer from Omar Antonio Iturriaga on Vimeo.
TV Series: Complexe G
In August I started grading a new TV series called “Complexe G”. It’s a comedy based on the Dutch series “Toren C”. In these 13 episodes we follow coworkers through their work day in a common office.
The show, produced by QuebeComm, was shot by DP André Perron on C300s and KiPro minis. The decision of using KiPros was made in pre-production to get a little more info from the C300 trading the 50mbps mpeg-based codec for the 220 mbps ProRes HQ.Windows were overexposed with the help of white diffusion. This helped closing the open set that was in a real office space in Quebec city.
Also, each character got a special treatment: Karine, the boss is surrounded by red objects, Sarah, the HR director is dressed and is surrounded by impeccable white, Nathalie, the assistant, is dressed in faded colours.
The show was edited in Media Composer and graded on Resolve 11.
The first episode will air on September 17th at 9PM on TVA
DOC: Steakhouse: Hugues Dufour à NY
This was a nice gig. I like to work on urban documentaries. This is the story of Hugues Dufour, a Montreal chef who moved to New York to open a steakhouse in Queens. The movie follows him over the 2 years he spends working on the project.
As the colourist, I was ask to reproduce the look and feel of 80s family movies and 8mm video. I used a heavily contrasted Kodak LUT and some dirty film grain scans from Gorilla Grain. We wanted to match the low-lalitude FS100 and EX3 to the dirty look of the archive footage used in the movie. The black were clipped on purpose but stayed high to give a washed feel to it.
Here’s the description on the producer’s website:
Pour le documentaire Steakhouse, nous avons suivi les aventures de Hugues Dufour, ancien sous-chef pour Martin Picard, dans son projet d’ouvrir un steakhouse à New York. Ce qui devait prendre deux mois aura finalement pris plus de deux ans, mais le jeu en a valu la chandelle et le restaurant M. Wells Steakhouse est maintenant ouvert, et l’équipe du film était sur place pour suivre toutes les péripéties et vivre tous les moments marquants de cette aventure.
Here is the link to the graded teaser:
http://www.canald.com/webtele?target=1.1405089
The link to the NOT GRADED trailer on TOXA’s website: http://www.toxa.com/realisations/steakhouse/
Here is the link for the broadcast schedule
WEB: Ma vie amoureuse de marde
Here a little review of my work on the teaser of a web series I worked on last week. It’s not often I get to post a clip so quickly but we need some likes on it to get the money to actually produce the full season so here it goes.
The original idea comes from the Montreal humorist, Anne-Marie Dupras, who started to use her love life as an inspiration for web sketches. Martin Berardelli them approached her to produce a whole season of these funny clips. So he gathered a team to shoot this teaser.
The shoot
On set, DP Kevin Champagne Lessard was willing to shoot with his Sony FS100. As I knew we wouldn’t have much time to light the set, even though we ha a full set of 6 Dedo lights, I wanted to get the best image I could get from the camera. I borrowed a Sound Devices Pix240i from Sono-technique. This way I was able to record ProRes 422 HQ files instead of the AVCHD files of the FS100. The other nice surprise was that the Pix240i was able to remove the pulldown sequence from the 29.97 HDMI feed of the FS100 and record a native 23.98.
After a week of editing I got the final cut. It was easily conformed in Resolve since the data wrangling was so well done… by me. I usually use the Scene Cut detection tool for foreign projects but with such a short movie and possible changes along the way I thought it was safer this way.
My FSI monitor showing the frame to the director and the DP. You can see the FS100 on the SHAPE rig with the Pix 240i and the Dedo lighting kit.
