Lookign for colour grading samples

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m.salah

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Hello,

I am looking for colour grading samples "Before" and "After" of two films for my university essay. The two films are 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'O Brother Where Art Thou'.

If anyone could help me find at least one frame with "Before" and "After" image colour from both films, that would be great.

Thanks
 
Get the DVD of O brother. There's a ~5 min featurette with Deakins that talks about and shows what you're looking for. Don't look for answers on the board for your essay, hear it from the DP himself.
 
I'm not sure how far you'll get with Saving Private Ryan. It was shot on film and had a bleach bypass during the processing to get the general look. There was no 'before.' Maybe a few tweaks in post, but the overall look is IN the film stock already. This is how they used to (and sometimes still) do it.
 
Agreed, photochemical.

You might want to check out the extras on "seven", there is some before and after in the color grading during transfer where they specifically try to emulate (or preserve) the photochemical bleach bypass look on video.
 
Jon Starr said:
I'm not sure how far you'll get with Saving Private Ryan. It was shot on film and had a bleach bypass during the processing to get the general look. There was no 'before.' Maybe a few tweaks in post, but the overall look is IN the film stock already. This is how they used to (and sometimes still) do it.
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Err, a bleach bypass is never done on the original film negative, it's almost always done at the internegative stage.

No insurance company would ever let the original negative be possibly destroyed in the process.
 
Pookie said:
Err, a bleach bypass is never done on the original film negative, it's almost always done at the internegative stage.

No insurance company would ever let the original negative be possibly destroyed in the process.
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Err, alright. Correct me if I'm wrong, but would they even bother to touch the original? Wouldn't they just keep it in archives for insurance purposes? Therefore there's no "before" for m.salah to use for his essay.... they would only use the copy that's had the bleach bypass. If there's a problem, they would take the original, make a new copy and do the bleach bypass to that.

Or am I missing something?
 
Avoiding writing term papers is what got me into this industry in the first place. I was in a film criticism course in another faculty called the Art of Film and the professor after outlining what the requirements for the term papers were, jokingly said, "or you could make a couple of films instead". Which was I all I needed to hear. (That was back in 1976 and the university had no film school there.)
 
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