This was an unusual grade in a number of ways, and was more about setting an overall look for the film that worked well with the story's gritty content and dark mood, than making sweeping changes to the images.

It was also unique in that the grading was done remote in Madras, India by Steve, without the client present as other work meant it was not possible for any of production team to join the grading sessions. A lot of use was made of the internet to pass images and Quicktime clips back and forth...

To see the changes before/after grading hover over the initial graded image with your cursor. And yes, the size changes are deliberate and part of the DI matching to the offline.

The Red images were decoded at 4K using RedLOG, and CameraRGB, with exposure set as per the camera metadata, and then Nyquist re-sized to 2K for the DI. The 'before' images you see are also without the print LUT as this makes them rather dark, which the after images have the LUT applied...

All images thanks to Stuart St. Paul.

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