The Art of Colour Grading Podcast

The Art of Colour Grading Podcast


Latest Episodes

#10 // Colour Grading Commercials
September 07, 2020

In the final episode of the season, senior colourist Angela Cerasi explores the ways in which grading commercials is unique from drama and documentary.  She explains how colour work for motion picture

#9 // Light and Darkness
August 31, 2020

In life and in art, light and darkness can be representative of good and evil, hope and fear.  But what else can it symbolise?  How can light and darkness be used as a visual motif and how can it be u

#8 // HDR Demystified
August 24, 2020

HDR is a superior picture format which now comes as standard in most modern TV's and devices.  It is also becoming a required deliverable that filmmakers need to provide streaming platforms.  So what

#7 // Being Creative
August 17, 2020

How do I know when my work is finished? Why do I have imposter syndrome and self doubt? How do I stop procrastinating? Everyone from directors to editors to colourists deal with the wild ride of being

#6 // The Colour Blue
August 10, 2020

Senior colourist Angela Cerasi explores the meaning behind the colour blue and how its various shades, hues and tones are used in visual language to subliminally layer a story and add greater depth to

#5 // LUTs Demystified
August 03, 2020

As a filmmaker working today, you will no doubt hear a cinematographer, DIT and/or a colourist talk about LUTs.  So what even is a LUT and what do you need to know?  In this fun episode, senior colour

#4 // Creative Briefs
July 27, 2020

How do you give an awesome creative brief to a colourist? Senior colourist Angela Cerasi shares her top five tips for giving a creative brief and explains how this is fundamental to getting the best result out of your colour grade.

#3 // Colour Grading Documentary
July 20, 2020

"Make it look natural" is what we have traditionally heard during the creative brief for a documentary grade, but what does this actually mean and is there a better way?  Senior colourist Angela Ceras

#2 // The "Filmic Look"
July 20, 2020

One of the most common creative briefs a colourist will receive is to make the show look "filmic".  In this episode senior colourist Angela Cerasi unpacks what that actually means, and explores how an

#1 // Introduction
July 20, 2020

Talking her way into a Film and TV degree, finding her way on to random film sets and camera assisting on multi-million dollar shoots is where it all began. Senior colourist explains why the weather