01 · Journal

From the
cutting room

Notes on colour, craft and the business of making film. Short, honest, from the people doing the work.

The grade is the grammar

Colour is not a filter you add at the end. It is the grammar that tells an audience how to feel before they have understood a single word.

The best day on set is a boring one. Everything interesting was already decided in pre-production, on paper, where mistakes are cheap.

Why we keep edit, colour, sound and motion under one roof, and what gets lost the moment a film has to travel between vendors.