BFS Grading Sheet

Contrast *

High contrast / digital contrast

Low contrast / cinematic S-curve

Black Level *

Black is black / hard black / no crush

Black is more a dark grey / soft black / lifted

Black Color *

Black has no color

Black can be tinted

Narural behavior of color and exposure / Saturated colors become darker *

Yes

No

Reduce to Pastel Color Palette *

Yes

No

Digital Black Diffusion *

Yes

No

Do you like halation? *

Yes

No

Are there Colors that need to uniformed or spread in Variation? *

Yes

No

Are there colors that need to be manipulated in brightness? *

Yes

No

Skintones rather... *

Tend to yellow

Tend to magenta

Beauty Shader are... *

welcome

not needed

Sky rather... *

tends to cyan

tends to magenta

Saturation rather... *

bigger than life

desaturated

Does the show have a dominant color? *

Yes

No

Signal Colors (life jackets, blue lights etc) ... *

Can pop

Need to be damped:

Nights are... *

Really dark

Desaturated

Blue

Low in contrast

Highlights are... *

Soft

Bloom

Desaturated

Really saturated (just HDR)

Overall Vignette *

Yes

No

Have there been any LUTs while shooting? *

Yes

No

Are there reference frames or movies? *

Yes

No

Do you have access to an iMac, iPad Pro or Mac Book (for streaming purpose)? *

Yes

No

Do you have access Shotdeck? *

Yes

No

Whats more important? *

The power of each singel shot

The 'exact' matching of all shots: