The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time Design Challenge

'To coincide with the first ever UK and Ireland Tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, National Theatre Learning are setting an exciting new Design Challenge for students, produced in partnership with Creative & Cultural Skills and the design team from this acclaimed production.

The National Theatre are bringing their award winning production of Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-Time to Bristol this August, and Bath in October, and as a pilot we are looking to host an exhibition at each venue of your students’ designs. '

More info on link below, discuss with me, Richard Edkins, if you are interested

Cine vs Log for Everstone Test

I've been getting used to S-log over the past few weeks, and the best thing that I have found about the setting is that it has a beautiful curve on the highlights of the sky.

In this quick test video that I did as preparation for my 90 second upcoming film Everstone, I found it much harder to retain the highlights of the the sky on Cine compared with LOG. While looking a lot more colourful, I did notice some splashes of noise in certain shots with the LOG shots, so I should be careful where an when I use it.

S-log Grading 2

Last time I tried out S-log I found it incredibly difficult to use, however upon my second go at trying to grade it, I've found myself getting much more of a hang of the proper way to go about the grade and definitely to spend as much time as I can preparing the camera like you would a film camera, as opposed to thinking of LOG like Raw.
The Look up tables that I added also look very sexy and if used appropriately could save some of my shots, although its also good to note that even with standard grading the footage looks just as good.
I've also found that clicking on the Balance Colour button of FCPX creates a much more usable shot to start off with than if I try to balance the colour myself.