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Blackmagic Design today announced that Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) MBS/ Tokyo Broadcasting System's (TBS) drama series Eren the Southpaw was graded with DaVinci Resolve Studio. The show, a live action drama series based on a manga series by artist Kappy, includes hundreds of shots per episode graded with an advanced collaborative workflow at Tokyo's Digital Garden using a mix of DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel, and DaVinci Resolve Mini or Micro Panel.
Digital Garden colorists Masahiro Ishiyama and Osamu Haga are the main colorists for the series, with one handling grading for the present and one for the past, with both working on DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel. With the large number of scenes, difficult grades and tight deadlines, Digital Garden built a seamless collaborative workflow around DaVinci Resolve.
The series follows Koichi Asakura and Eren Yamagishi, who met each other while in high school and continue their relationship as Koichi becomes a designer and Eren becomes an up and coming painter in NYC. To those who could not become a genius is the catch phrase for this series and the story depicts the people and environment in the art industry and at an ad agency based on the manga author's actual experience.
For Digital Garden, best known for their color grading TV commercial work, Eren the Southpaw was one of their first long form drama series. The show's DP, Akiyoshi Yoshida, wanted to use Digital Garden's commercial expertise and asked them to grade the drama as if they were grading a TV commercial, while at the same time create two different looks between current and past scenes. To do this, he shot in two different aspect ratios -- 4:3 for past and 2:1 for current, with colorist Ishiyama grading the present and Haga grading the past.
The current scenes I graded were mainly in the office, so I aimed for a more realistic look yet still contain decent shadow in the scenes. The set design for this series is good quality, so I took advantage of the footage fully and tried to pull out the best tone possible, said Ishiyama, the lead colorist of Digital Garden.
Haga said: The past scenes are a more fun memory of youth. So I made more like pastel tone with brighter and more colors. I used a lot of Power Windows and keys even for single shots, such as brightening the white of characters' eyes. And I sometimes use DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel or Micro Panel if I need to color correct at the location. However, I mainly use DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel. Using panels allow me to grade instinctively and fast. I can say I cannot grade without them.
The Advanced Panel allows us faster grading; however, even Mini and Micro Panel have the same quality of feeling when I touch the track balls. Ishiyama added.
Each episode of the show required 3 days of post production, which had to include client presentations. To meet these tight deadlines, Digital Garden created a collaborative workflow between the main colorists and assistant colorists. There are more than 100 shots just needed to do color matching for one episode. So we, the main colorists, created base looks and then the assistants did matching other shots with the base looks using the Mini Panel, said Ishiyama.
During preview, Ishiyama played the episode with the Advanced Panel and the DP and director gave feedback. While the preview went on, the assistant was fixing colors based on their feedback using the Mini Panel. By the time the preview was over, most of the fixes were complete.
This collaborative workflow has three advantages. The first is more for sales perspective in that we can increase our production ratio for the grading suites. Next is we, the colorists, can concentrate on more creative works. And the third is the assistants can learn grading in the actual working environment where the main colorist and client are in the same suite, Ishiyama concluded.
About Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design creates the world's highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design's DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company's Emmy award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia. For more information, please go to www.blackmagicdesign.com.
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