Halo Grade Assistant Magdalena Turnier has made the UKMVA shortlist

From the moment I received the footage for ‘Different’ I was aware the client had shot using various techniques including 360 optical lens adapters and vaseline for soft focus.

The concept for the video is a circular motion, which repeats itself in 360 fisheye shots as well as seemingly linear rotation on a 360 degree axis. The grade brief was for all internal shots to adapt a classic film noir look with blooming highlights. To gain the desired contrast level in the black & white, I added various colour layers to control which way the volume of depth would behave.

To achieve the illusion of a continuously rotating camera, I animated most grades to fit the start and the end of each shot together seamlessly.
‘Being me’ was shot on a multitude of formats, from 16mm to Blackmagic Cinema to MiniDV.

In this piece the artist is providing a social commentary on certain issues within young people’s lives & the grade brief was centred around this abstract concept: the colours needed to speak for that idea, and of a system which swallows young people up sometimes and throws obstacles in their way.
Working with such a wide range of formats added the desired authenticity to the piece, which made it important to give each section & footage it’s own look to help keep it’s integrity, whilst still creating a palette and consistency that enabled the shots to flow.