Color correction complete

Uncorrected still photo by E. Hammen

Ahren Buhmann and I recently finished a several-day stint of color correction for Beach Town (a rock and roll beach movie of the mind). Ahren doing the correcting, me saying "yeah, that looks a million times better" over and over.

What is color correction? (or, "What would possibly need "correcting" about all those beautiful images?")

Color Correction is the process of balancing slight discrepancies in the hue, brightness, or whatever, of each shot -- and at the same time making sure the individual shots look good side by side with all the other shots in a scene, which may have been taken in different light, on different days, with different filmstock, and so on.

The result is that the film as whole flows well visually. It's movie magic. The illusion!

Anyway, Ahren did an awesome job and color correction is officially finished 

Next up: the final sound mix -- so that the audio flows nicely.

Then we're done.

Social hour: I ran into Kenna Kettrick and Amanda Keogh at the theater and talked to them for a bit. Great to see them both!  Also worked a bit more with David Thomas to tweak some music.