Colour grading, the art of manipulating the colour of a film digitally in post-production, is as omnipresent as it is misunderstood. To help demystify the process, we’ve invited supervising colourist Andrea Chlebak (Mandy, An American Pickle, HBO’s The Watchmen) to discuss the art of colour grading with us.
In this episode, we discuss:
Where does the colour grading process begin? Pre-production? Production?
Development of multiple palettes within individual films.
Digital and celluloid image capture and the implications on the colour grading process of each.
The future of colour grading and digital imaging.
The limits of colour correction: what can we change in post? What can’t we change?
Exposure ideologies for fun and profit.
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Andrea’s work:
Other:
Works discussed during this episode:
Andrea’s Work:
An American PIckle
Mandy
Watchmen
Hello Destroyer
Elysium
Other Work:
Hekademia
Traffic
Game of Thrones S8e03: “The Long Night”
Blade Runner 2049
Andrea Chlebak has spent the past 16 years honing her skills as a colorist for major studios and indies alike.
Canadian-born, Chlebak’s recent work has included supervising color for Seth Rogen’s “An American Pickle” for HBOMax, as well as collaborating for a third time with award-winning cinematographer Gregory Middleton ASC to supervise color for Netflix’s feature “A Babysitter’s Guide to Monsterhunting”.
Starting out as a graphic artist and photographer, then editor and compositor, the opportunity to become a colorist in 2006 was a turning point for Chlebak. Her multi-disciplinary background has spanned features, docu-series and commercials. Major credits include Hollywood studio films such as Neill Blomkamp’s “Elysium” and “Chappie”, as well as award-winning indies “Mandy” and “Prospect”. Her career has taken her to some of the industry’s leading post-production houses including Deluxe, EFILM, Encore, Company3, and Digital Film Central.
Adept at collaborating with directors, cinematographers, visual effects supervisors and editors to develop and refine the final look and feel for a film, her approach, “Adds clarity and dimension to the creative experience and unearths beautifully polished images” says Chlebak, “I like to bring an artistic sensibility and technical rigor to all of my projects.”
Based out of HARBOR’s LA post-production facility, Andrea Chlebak is available to filmmakers worldwide,