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Ep 309: “Limitless” (2011)

February 11, 2025

We ingest Neil Burger’s “Limitless” and discuss:



  • Wes discusses the color grading process on his new short film 00:00-29:00;
  • Story & Writing, opening scenes, voiceover, structure, exposition;
  • Cinematography, inserts as storytelling, color for storytelling, how voiceover impacts the coverage;
  • and other such stuff and things and stuff.

What will limit us is not the possible evolution of technology, but the evolution of human purposes. – Stephen Wolfram


Notes & References:

Rihanna “Work” (YouTube) – colored by TBD Post

Do we only use 10% of our brain? (MIT.edu) – “the idea that we use 10 percent of our brain is 100 percent a myth.”; “All of our brain is constantly in use and consumes a tremendous amount of energy,”

TBD Post – Post Production house

Brandon Thomas colorist (instagram)


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