SHAUN WOOD
TV
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Thrive Market Television Commercial
The Cinematographer did a great job of capturing an easy laid back weekend; while the subject was getting her groceries delivered. My job was to punch up the merchandise and Thrive Market brand every where I could. Secondary color correction became key. Work included increasing color saturation on specific items to slightly desaturate the
surroundings, recovering highlights and bring them into the mid-tones so they did not demand the viewer's attention, all while staying in legal color limits for broadcast.
Beauty work
Beauty Work with Secondary Color and More
This actor is portraying a pop star. Her character's beauty needed to stand out in the room. A post produced key light on the face helped to achieve the desired look. The lightening of the eyes allowed the actor's subtle performance to hold greater attention.
Video
to Cinema
Raw Footage Transformation
From Producer's Instagram: "Thrilled is an understatement when actor/producer Billy Zane, at a recent festival Q&A, referred to our short PUSHED as ‘highly cinematic’. We received that compliment, and many more, on behalf of two of our production team members. The first, the film’s cinematographer
Terra Gutmann-Gonzales. The second, the film’s editor and post-production wizard Shaun Wood. Shaun transformed the raw footage with color grading, lighting effects, and compositing via DaVinci Resolve... for a superb result indicating a budget far greater than reality."
Cloudy
Sky
Night Time Forest Scene
The sky replacement composted and graded on the color page of DaVinci Resolve. Producer wanted sky colors to match that of a photo he took of a pink sunset. This project was graded for Dolby Vision.
Day for Night
Night Time Forest Scene
The film budget, available equipment, and schedule did not allow for this forest scene to be effectively shot at night or near dusk. The use of color correction tools enabled us to create the day-for-night effect and to alter the personality of the forest. To do so, I manipulated the Chroma, Gamma, and Luminance, in addition to altering the blacks, whites, and mid-tones significantly impacting the color
composition of the forest scene. The primary difference between a daytime shot and a nighttime shot is the way colors are perceived. A forest under moonlight takes on a blue-purple hue. In order to mimic this, I added a blue-purple hue to the scene, and pushed the blacks more toward the blue range of the color spectrum. I reduced saturation to bring down the intensity of the rest of the colors within the image. I then reduced the luminance and chrominance of the scene. Reducing the luminance created a loss of some scene clarity, realistically replicating night/dusk vision. Reducing the chrominance caused the subject not to stand out as much, creating an emotional trigger of her being drawn into the forest, as well as a perceived increase of the forest depth
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