Film Colour, Texture & Mood
The Torah - LUT Creation Prize
Torah Cinematographer Ben Hodgson is working Neil Hunt and his University of Portsmouth Film Grading & Workflow students to develop a signature look (or LUT) for The Torah. If you’re not sure what a LUT is then check out this LUT Link.
Win Cash and an on-screen Film Credit!
The UK Production Company is offering University of Portsmouth BAFP Grading & Workflow Module students the chance to have their name in lights (and a £50 cash prize) by way of an on-screen credit if their LUT is selected for the film.
LUT Brief Here’s the initial Brief for the students along with a link to the moodboard.
LUT Context Set in The Middle East, The Torah is a dramatic, visceral filmic account of events as witnessed by a documentary crew six thousand years ago. In many ways it is a modern day story of a displaced people whose continued existence is repeatedly under threat. Despite their common cause of survival in extreme circumstances, the people are beset with internal feuding and betrayal, yet survive as each generation produces a strong but flawed hero who cajoles the squabbling ‘tribe’ through each unfolding disaster.
LUT Look Dust and grit is everywhere and has even penetrated the cameras and film’s emulsion. The colours are dry, washed through and rinsed out by the wind. The texture of the landscape, costume and faces seems like papyrus - sandy, grainy, worn. The look resembles a black and white image placed over a colour image with reduced saturation and exposure, along with increased contrast and graininess, edging toward monochromatic. The colour palette is muted and chalky, although blue and/or red hues sing through and find emblematic status within the film.
LUT Application The LUT will be created, developed and refined by the students with the film’s Cinematographer Ben Hodgson, DOP Mark Moreve and Post Production Lecturer Neil Hunt. We’ll then be testing it on rushes already filmed in Morocco which share the same natural lighting conditions and landscape environments as for The Torah.
Technical: Camera: Shooting on the Sony F55 XAVC 4K
Deadline: 15th January 2020