Joe Gawler
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Watch: Devan Scott’s “The Holdovers, the ‘Film Look’, and Why it Matters” — The Video
One of Filmmaker‘s most popular articles last month was Devan Scott’s “The ‘Film Look’ and How The Holdovers Achieved It.” Of course, any discussion of cinematography and color grading is immensely aided by the actual visuals, and now Scott has made an hour-long essay video based on that article. Check it out above.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 10, 2024 -
The “Film Look” and How The Holdovers Achieved It
A working digital colorist or cinematographer in 2024 is likely all too familiar with one particular question: “Can we get the ‘film look’?” A decade into the age of digital sensors as the increasingly dominant and default shooting format, filmmakers at all budget levels are increasingly looking back at celluloid for inspiration. Phenomena once seen as drawbacks to be minimized—grain, chromatic aberration, anamorphic distortion, lens flares, halation—have not only become desired, but, if hordes of YouTube camera gurus are to be believed, “cinematic.” That is, these elements associated with this particular image formation workflow are essential to what constitutes “cinema,” […]
by Devan Scott on Jan 31, 2024
