By Staff, March 15, 2006
PostWorks, New York detailed its supporting role in delivering director Michel Gondry's concert film, "Dave Chappelle's Block Party." Focus Features debuted the film theatrically on Mar. 3.
Produced by Bob Yari Productions, the concert portions of the film were lensed on location in Brooklyn by cinematographer Ellen Kuras, a three-time Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award winner. The director and DP captured the film's performances on Super 16mm film stock. Among many services provided by PostWorks, colorist Scot Olive worked directly with the filmmakers to color-grade the 2K Digital Intermediate (DI), which became the source for all the film's picture deliverables.
Post-production on the film began at PostWorks in Oct
. 2005. PostWorks provided an Avid Media Composer 9000 for the last stage of offline editorial to editors Jeff Buchanan and Sarah Flack. The 2K DI process involved scanning the camera original Super 16mm negative using PostWorks' new Grass Valley Spirit 2K. George Bunce conformed the 2K data files in Quantel iQ, and Scot Olive then used the Pandora Pogle PiXi system in conjuction with iQ's 2K playback capability to color grade in real-time on the 16'x9' screen in PostWorks' DI Theater. The finished film was recorded to 35mm Kodak Negative Stock via Arri Laser. Custom look-up-tables (LUTs) were built to allow for release printing on Fuji 3513DI stock.
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