To Be Beautiful

I worked with the director/writer of this film, Rem Valatka, to craft a look specific to their vision for the story. The look was developed in preproduction and turned into LUTs for use on set and to be burned into the dailies and DI. The motif of repetitive days is an important part of the film. I used the same camera angles for each day to convey conformity and intentionally broke from it when changes happened in the story. Handheld was used sparingly to emphasize unsteadiness. The film was shot on a RED Gemini and Zeiss Contax lenses and graded in Resolve. An ACES pipeline was used throughout production to maintain authorial intent throughout the imaging pipeline.