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Battlestar Galactica: the ‘Caprica’ look (Magic Bullet)
Hi there,
Apols if this is misposted, but there’s no general
post-production and/or colour correction and/or Magic
Bullet forum to post to.Am currently in early pre-p grading for a sci-fi
short (‘Everything Beautiful’) shoot during this summer.
Normally my workflow mirrors Fincher/Miranda, and
I’ll take screengrabs home during production, grade
them in PShop, get pre-post approval and everything
is speeded up wonderfully. This time, I already have
references to work with – one of then being the Galactica’s
Caprica from Season 2 – so I thought I’d make a start
anyway. It’s early days on this, but I’ve got time on
my hands (for a change).The link is something tosed together in Magic Bullet last
light. General RGB or grading or Hue-Sat or maybe even insights
into Galactica’s colourists are appreciated. Maybe they
(colourists) used propriety software for the grading –
who knows?https://www.x-gf.com/misc/everybeaut_prep_colourgrade1.jpg
Thanks in advance,
Darren.myspace.com/xgfmedia
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7 Replies
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What is the original image? Your grading looks a bit too yellow to me – what are you trying to suggest with your colors?
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The reference still (as stated) is from BG, Season 2.
BG’s grading connotation (as is ours) is post-nuclear
war; the planet is hotter, skies polluted, residual
fallout in the clouds. Orange and white which reflects
the primary colours of a mushroom cloud, I presume. The
BG still is quite likely to be a CG still, so hence
they found it quite easy to maintain the oranges
and greens without a lot of colour-correction hassle.One obviously (of course) is to trawl the BG forums,
but there isn’t enough hours in the day for that.Darren.
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Film and Video magazine had a cover story about BG’s HD workflow some time ago. Check their website.
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Cheers, mate.
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I got in touch with Mark @ Enigma about this. He was VFX on Season
1. This was his reply:… awaiting permission to quote.
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Update: Mark kindly asked I didn’t reprint his
viewpoint(s).Darren.
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Ok, so here’s what I’ve done to replicate the look just using Final Cut:
Select the scene, edit timeline to taste.
Choose from scene the brightest clip bit and double-click to put it up in the viewer.
Go to Filters and find your Overdrive Effect Filter, which will allow you to make everything appear to be overlit.
Then adjust to taste a bit.
Back in filters, choose the ‘Tint’ filter, and choose a color that will give you the effective wash you are looking for.
You can also, now, add the 3-way-color corrector to adjust your levels and tones for each level more precisely. You’ll end with the same effect.
Now, how you translate that your system, I don’t know, but I hope this helps some.
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