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EFILM Relies on New Baselight Grading Suite for Divergent

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Deluxe-owned postproduction facility EFILM recently installed its first Baselight color grading suite from FilmLight. The installation includes the Baselight TWO real-time grading system with Blackboard 2 control surface, and the Baselight Assist station for background rendering and processing.

One of the first projects EFILM worked on with Baselight was the recently released action adventure film Divergent starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Kate Winslet. From director Neil Burger and shot on ARRI Alexa cameras by director of photography Alwin Küchler, BSC, the feature film adaptation of Veronica Roth’s best-selling novel was released in theaters on March 21, by Summit Entertainment.

EFILM lead colourist Tom Reiser was responsible for the film’s distinctive look. “Action adventure movies traditionally have a cool look, but Neil Burger wanted this to start out colorful and warm. There were plenty of opportunities to use Baselight to create interesting looks,” Reiser said. “There is also a plot device of going into people’s dreams, and I gave each a distinctive look with green and yellow washes. I also used the grain and degrain features within Baselight, which perform really well. Alwin Küchler also featured a lot of bold lighting with big color casts from LED lamps, which added to the tone.”

Reiser, who has been a lead colorist at EFILM since 2009, praised the system for its auto tracking tool and its inclusion of printer light emulation, which he believes is a significantly better approach to color grading.

“The auto-tracking in real time is pretty amazing. I can put a shape on and hit area tracking and it shows me precisely what the shape is going to do. Being able to create and store my own pre-sets is also a huge benefit, as well as having the option to use a different LUT for every shot if I want to. I used five or six in Divergent,” explained Reiser. “Baselight also gives me excellent secondaries with good logarithmic tracking. My overall sense is to make the images naturalistic, and Baselight allows me to achieve what I am looking for.”

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