HD RGB & BLACK/WHITE | STAGING THE DELAYED SOUND | DIRECTOR´S COMMENT | GALLERY
HD RGB & Black/White
Delay is the first movie worldwide using the extensive and nearly uncompressed color range of the RGB color-mode of HDCam SR 4:4:4 for a black & white-grading. It was shot on the Arriflex D-20 camera aiming to use the actual top quality digital filming format as well as technique to create a new digital black & white-look.
The decision for black & white originated from the story´s theme: by using earplugs and suppressing sound the protagonist solves his problem of perceiving sound delayed. His reduced abilities are visually translated by the reduction on grey-tones. By extreme and nearly graphical appearing black & white a silent and clear ambience was created in the way of Film Noir of the 1940s and 1950s. “A sort of silence in the pictures” has been important to director Florian Kaltenbach, to give the audience more space to concentrate on the protagonist´s unusual acoustic problem.
The morbidity and gloominess often associated with Film Noir, ought to be avoided by exhausting luminance and brilliance in the RGB color-correction et al., typical features for high-level digital productions. For black & white it is often useful to do the grading with the color-channels, because it is possible to distinguish two similar appearing grey-channels that are based on different colors. Unlike to the CYK-colormode, footage shot in the RGB-mode every color-channel (Red/Green/Blue) is available nearly uncompressed, which includes a very large color-range and coevally an enormous tolerance for the grading.
By the possibilities in the grading-process and shooting with the Arriflex D-20, which provided a brilliant deep-focus with the Ultra Prime optics, the designated and graphical appearing black & white look and impressive pictures for large projections could be created.
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