10 Minute Tales and The
Queen in 3d Brought to Life by Ascent 142 and Digital Vision
January 21, 2010
Source: Digital Vision
Ascent 142, a Soho,
London facility has used its Digital Vision portfolio on a
number of recent high profile projects including Sky One’s
highly acclaimed 10 Minute Tales, Channel 4’s The Queen
in 3D and Ealing comedy The Lady Killers.
The 10 Minute Tales, produced by Hilary
Bevan-Jones, is a series of 11 short films that ran over a
ten-day period from 21st – 31st December. Nine of the
nine minute silent shorts were graded using Film Master at
Ascent 142 by Jet Omoshebi, and feature some of the biggest
names in film and drama.
Starring Mackenzie Crook, Bill Nighy, Peter Capaldi, Ross
Kemp and a host of other well known faces, the 10 Minute Tales
provide a unique and engaging look at life, loss, and love.
The shorts were shot on a variety of formats including RED
and graded in 4:4:4 using Film Master.
The Queen in 3D, a project for the British
Film Institute (BFI), was graded using Film Master’s
stereoscopic toolset and restored on Digital Vision’s
DVNR. “It’s incredibly advantageous to be able to
run two tracks on the Film Master simultaneously,” explains
Paul Collard, VP Film and Digital Services, Ascent 142. He
adds, “With restoration projects you often have to cut
between several sources of material. In this case we had two
complete rolls of 35mm Technicolor film prints from the fifties
which were made as left eye/right eye.
“Using Film Master we checked that
both films were complete and the same length. The colourist
then graded each identically in 2D using a split screen, making
two complete HD masters that could be superimposed into the
3D software. The Film Master is a perfect tool for this project.
The ability to see both tracks at the same time and do wipes
between them significantly simplifies the process. We then
restored the material by doing an HD DVNR pass.
“The BFI wanted the look to be
as faithful to the film as possible and I think we achieved
that. The original film prints had good saturations, good
blacks, pretty neutral and pale flesh tones that were evocative
of the period.”
The facility has also recently used Digital Vision’s
Phoenix production tool on a restoration project for Studio
Canal. The Lady Killers made in 1955 is one of the earliest
Ealing comedies and stars Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness.
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