The sadistic 'Violent Night', graded with DaVinci Resolve Studio

David Husset (公司3) has decided to colour grade with 达芬奇解决工作室 Violent Night, an action film directed by Tommy Wirkola and starring a dark version of Santa Claus.

Violent Night, produced by 87North’s Guy Danella, David Leitch and Kelly McCormick, and distributed by 环球影业, sees a team of elite mercenaries break into a family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone present hostage. Despite this, the team of hired killers is unprepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus。

For this project, director Tommy Wirkola 和摄影师 Matthew Weston coordinated with colourist David Husset in order to define early on how the colour treatment of the film would be: “I basically tried to enhance via the grade what Tommy and Matthew had designed on set. They had made a plan during the production to make the downstairs interiors warm and rich while keeping the exteriors, where many of the action scenes take place, cooler with some edge. There’s also a barn and an attic where action occurs, and we made sure that area was a very moody and cool color temperature.”

Once the colour grading was complete, Hussey worked closely with Weston on an initial rendering of the film, with a view to showing Wirkola a whole section 听取他的意见：“马修给了我他特别喜欢的样片中的彩色参考，以便让我知道我们应该采取什么方式。汤米看完最初的效果后，我们花了一周的时间一起完善外观。”

使用 DaVinci Resolve 远程工作

部分工作是通过 虚拟会议，在哪里 赫西的 的调整 Blackmagic Design 的 DaVinci Resolve Studio 在 Company 3 的圣莫尼卡 工作室可供来自温哥华的制作主管同步观看， 维科拉和韦斯顿 来自奥斯陆，以及 雷奇和麦考密克 来自澳大利亚，他们在那里拍摄另一部电影。

随着会议 进步了，由于具有多功能性，需要进行更正，但很快就得到了解决 达芬奇解决工作室, explains Hussey: “Grouping in DaVinci Resolve has made creative color grading so much faster. To be able to warm up or brighten a whole scene and show it to the director in seconds is so satisfying. When I’m tracking objects on the screen, clients are often still blown away by how quickly that can be done.”

Although his workflow is often characterised by simplicity, Hussey appreciates having more specialised tools for specific applications: “I used 开放外汇 for its grain package on this film. Matthew wanted to give the film a little more texture, and the grain we added looked great. Also, we did a lot of window tracking, separating the warm fire lit skin tones from the cooler exterior backgrounds. And we used secondary color correction, to isolate and refine portions of the frame, an enormous amount because who doesn’t like a rich red blood splatter!?”

A satisfying result

Hussey was fascinated by the scenes in this Santa Claus action film, but admits that one scene in Violent Night stands out above the rest: “If it’s a Leitch/McCormick produced film, you know it’s going to have some exciting action scenes, and so one of my favorites is a fight scene with Santa, the bad guys and a woodchipper. Matthew gave the scene a lot of mood using bright exterior highlights coming through wood slats of a barn. Our challenge was to keep the mood but see the action and balance all the highlights to make it all feel cohesive. I’m very pleased with the results.”

“I’ve used DaVinci Resolve most of my career, and it was the perfect system for the windowed highlight balancing and tracking that I needed for all of these action scenes,” adds Hussey。

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经过起草，2022 年 12 月 22 日，部分：后处理

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