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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Big Sur

"Big Sur" has been selected as a premier screening at Sundance this month, so post is finally wrapping up. Ian Vertovec started color-correcting yesterday at LightIron:

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It's wonderful to see my Epic footage on the big screen; there are also a couple of great shots that Tom Lowe did for us, both on his Epic and his Canon (time-lapse).

The images will have a mildly manipulated look, desaturated with a diffusion effect on the blacks.
 
Congrats! I'm hoping to see this as well.
 
Amazing images. Thanks so much for sharing, David. Besides Sundance, is there any news on distribution? Will there be screenings in New York City anytime soon?
 
Looking forward to it David.
 
I hope you guys are able to achieve some sort of distribution deal, this looks awesome and I look forward to seeing it at some point. With that said, if you're having any trouble with distribution but would like to get it out to some of the digital services, please give me a holler. I'd like to see if I could maybe help you with that. I understand that's probably not your call, but whomever may hold the rights to this film, we may be able to help. I'll just say that it's the same service used by Nigel and Tom for Timescapes to iTunes.

Anyway, GOOD LUCK AT SUNDANCE!!! Again, it looks amazing.
 
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The black halation is intentional, a post effect -- it shows up more clearly when a dark object is framed against a bright one. Shelly Johnson did something similar in "The Wolfman". Black halation is an effect you sometimes see in old b&w movies printed from dupe negatives; I wanted a diffusion effect that was a bit different than the typical halation around bright areas.

The first time I saw that effect was in the original prints of "The Natural" -- the first act was all duped from the color o-neg by combining a sharp b&w positive on top of a color inter positive that was thrown out-of-focus, creating a diffusion effect but one where the blacks also bled into the whites. You saw it most clearly in the last shot of Barbara Hershey holding the gun, in a black nightgown standing against bright window sheers.
 
Cool. I figured it was too obvious to not be intentional. I love the look of this film a lot :)

David Mullen ASC said:
The black halation is intentional, a post effect -- it shows up more clearly when a dark object is framed against a bright one. Shelly Johnson did something similar in "The Wolfman". Black halation is an effect you sometimes see in old b&w movies printed from dupe negatives; I wanted a diffusion effect that was a bit different than the typical halation around bright areas.

The first time I saw that effect was in the original prints of "The Natural" -- the first act was all duped from the color o-neg by combining a sharp b&w positive on top of a color inter positive that was thrown out-of-focus, creating a diffusion effect but one where the blacks also bled into the whites. You saw it most clearly in the last shot of Barbara Hershey holding the gun, in a black nightgown standing against bright window sheers.
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