Published On: April 26th, 2022
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Recently released on Hulu, the second season of The Hardy Boys picks up six months after the events of Season 1, building on the mystery and drama of the inaugural season and welcoming new friends and suspects.
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Produced by Nelvana and Lambur Productions, the complete post-production process of this highly anticipated series was handled by Toronto-based Eggplant Picture & Sound. The team started to work with the DP Gregor Hagey and showrunner Jason Stone already in the
pre-production stage to develop the look they wanted to achieve for this season, shared Senior Colorist Mark Driver. From there we created a few shooting LUTs to be used on set. During the shoot we would process all their dailies, create files for editorial and screeners for the producers, and do all the LTO backups of the original camera files. After the editing in Avid Media Composer was completed, the team started with the finishing process. AAFs came to us to conform into Mistika, then VFX plates were pulled from the conform and sent off to the VFX team. All the grading, finishing and some VFX were done in Mistika, shared Mark.
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-- Working during the lockdown
While working on this project, Canada was still largely under COVID lockdown, so the challenge for Mark and the team was getting everything to come together while working remotely and Mistika made the process smoother. The episodes were first conformed in the working resolution (3840 1600) on their Mistika Ultima systems in the facility, and all the online work and VFX pulls were done from that.
For grading, an HD version of the conform would be rendered and sent to my house where I have a Mistika Boutique system with a calibrated Flanders grading monitor and a set of Element panels. I would receive full-res plates for any VFX shots I was responsible for. I would grade the entire show and do any VFX in Boutique, then just send my Mistika timeline back to the facility where everything would relink back to the full res media, describes Mark. The final colour screenings with the DP were done in person and screeners for everyone else were rendered out of Mistika and uploaded to Frame.io.
The Hardy Boys season 2 was shot on Sony Venice cameras, so the footage came in SLog3. However, the base LUT we used to create the look from this season was not built for an SLog3 input, so we used Mistika's UniColor tool to convert the SLog3 gamma curve into a Cineon curve, which fit our show LUT better. From there, everything was graded into a Rec709 colour space for delivery to Hulu.
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-- Driving emotion through the Color and Light
Mark drew most of his inspiration for the final look from other TV shows and movies. There's so much beautifully done content out there these days that you don't have to look far to find something amazing and inspirational. The Hardy Boys takes place in the late 70s, early 80s which drives a lot of the look. The production design, costumes, lighting and lensing all work together to put us in that era. All I try to accomplish with the grade is to enhance what's there to maximise the emotional impact of each scene.
In the second season the look has changed quite a bit compared to season 1, where a very warm and inviting look was predominant, as the spectators were introduced to the characters and learned about them. This season, as the characters are thrust into a more dangerous situation, we've pushed the look of the show to give it a much darker, more sinister feel. This is what I love about grading, using colour and light to drive the emotion of a scene or show.
For fine tuning the image, Mark used Mistika's bands tool. It allows such quick and specific manipulation of distinct portions of the image. Without it I would need to waste time adding various nodes and limiting them to the specific range of the image I wanted to manipulate.
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I've been using Mistika now for more years than I'd care to count, since pre 1.0 betas, and it really has evolved into one of the most robust tools on the market. Its speed and versatility have, on
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