“Reverse Engineering the Grade” is a project where I collect stills from “behind the scenes” and compare those images side by side with scenes from the final movie. My goal is to get as close as possible to the final look, but at the same time, I want to keep the node tree minimal and clean.
THE IDEA BEHIND
REVERSE ENGINEERING THE GRADE
I remembered this blog post by Juan Melara from 2015. In the course of a discussion on the topic „movie look recreations“ in this “Lift Gamma Gain thread“, colourist and cinematographer Juan Melara „jumped in“ and recreated the look of “Midnight in Paris” in DaVinci Resolve.
The result is still one of the best look recreations you can find online. From this point on I got profoundly interested in the method of „reverse engineering the grade“, and I started to experiment with it myself resulting in making this website on the topic with some additional points of view.
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