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On August 16, HBO Asian original Chinese science fiction drama series "Dream Raider" was premiered on HBO and HBO Tracking Mystery GO. Clues, and then reveal the story of the mysterious truth.
[Image source of this article: Episode One, Trailer] What kind of influence is
, so that most American TV fans are convinced that "HBO produced must be a boutique "?
"Game of Thrones", "Western World", "Sex and the City", "Prison Storm", "The Sopranos" ... these well-known American dramas are all produced by HBO under the content strategy of boutique original self-made dramas .
's high-quality drama content and excellent production standards make HBO famous all over the world.
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HBO’s rich and shocking visual images are definitely a major attraction for every drama produced by HBO. This is due to the fact that HBO has always maintained extremely high standards for images, and the quality of some episodes is even comparable. Hollywood movies, original content + movie-level production standards, this is one of the reasons why HBO can reach the top of the "boutique drama" altar.
HBO Asian original Chinese science fiction drama "Dream Hunting Agent" is directed by Fu Lu and Hong Shengyang, supervised by Zheng Baorui, starring Wang Shixian, Yang Yizhan, Wang Yaoqing and others. The plot is set in the near future. A team of scientists and policemen try to crack the criminal plan deep in the criminals' consciousness.
"Dream Hunter" is a sci-fi drama series that integrates rich elements such as human brain consciousness, virtual world, and tracking mystery. The director uses a large number of visual effects to create a sense of future technology, and the color vision is also cool and brilliant Mainly, quite tense.
So, from the perspective of the color of the picture, how does the extraordinary color team use color to create a sci-fi texture? How can the color craftsmanship of the drama break through the barriers of general standard to achieve HBO boutique content?
·Creativity and style
After getting the original filming material of "Dream Hunter", the extraordinary team began to look after all the scenes in the material and sort out all the scenes in the original filming material. This is one of the work habits of the extraordinary colorist Luo Liquan. He believes that when a story needs an exclusive look, it must be sorted out in every scene of it, to ensure the performance of the look, but also to maintain The integrity of the original art.
For example: there is a purple in the picture. This purple is part of the art setting, so when designing the LOOK, you can't change its color or even make it disappear. This is not appropriate. Colorists need to respect the previous art settings while maintaining the LOOK design sense in the later stage, so they have to browse and sort out every picture element and find a balance.
. For the first time communication between vision and color
, you can use te for the first time to communicate with the image & color
. The Extraordinary color team incorporated these suggestions into future work.
Because there are a large number of special effects shots in the play, the extraordinary color grading team has communicated with them many times.Improve the color scheme to fit the sci-fi plot setting and suspenseful scene atmosphere. The main color of most scenes of
"Dream Hunter" always maintains a relative contrast, with some cyan tones mixed in the shadows, and under appropriate scenarios, there are light-receiving surfaces with different color temperatures and brightness corresponding to different time points. Against the cyan background, some unrealistic color blurring can easily make people feel a sense of separation, so as to be immersed in the sci-fi atmosphere. At the same time, the solid contrast makes the picture fall and brings the audience back to reality.
We usually use very few nodes and rarely use tools such as qualifier. Most of the time, we mainly use lift and gain, and occasionally use LUTs, but there is a necessary condition-try to create LUTs from scratch. We will create an exclusive LOOK for each film and encapsulate it in a 3D LUT. These LOOKs must be created based on the original log image, because the colorist needs to know all the details in the LUT.
. This is an episode of HBO and the original HBO special drama series, which is a collection of HBO and extraordinary media. Before the beginning of the project, Dianna, the post-production producer of the play, sent us a detailed material delivery list and its technical specifications, so that we can clarify the direction and results of the future work.
In addition, the director and producer of the play also put forward some professional suggestions during the project production process, including some small details. This is of great help for the extraordinary color team to understand the film style and story theme. Everyone fully respected each other's ideas when communicating. The whole process of cooperation made us deeply touched.
The weird atmosphere and cool scenes, this is a mysterious journey waiting for the audience to shed its cocoons, and it is also a pleasant and precious journey of cooperation between Viva Media and HBO.
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