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hold shots longer, to let cameras do nice little creeps in and moves and not to over cut it. It was one of those when the offline was never locked, we would always tweak things and because Resolve is basically a fully- fledged editor now we would right up to delivery still be slipping shots, moving things about or even in some cases looking for different angles just in case. Multicam edits tend to unravel as soon as you change one angle, then you realise you have to change another and another. Before you know it you have recut half the song. There was certainly a lot of editing in the grade in that sense because Resolve did leave that option open to us. Sometimes as a colourist that’s the last thing you want to be doing but ultimately for the sake of the project you still need those options open. For a director this is great creatively.” The show was done much more like a traditional OB, it was a multicam, it was vision mixed,

but you’ve also got these extremes of contrast ratios and lighting so I think it was superbly handled in terms of what they actually got me for the grade. If that consideration hadn’t been thought about upfront, then it would have been a lot harder.” EDITINGWHILE GRADING This was Gavin Elder’s second concert for David Gilmour and James was sure he was the right person to both direct and edit it. “He knows David’s aesthetic really well, it’s a very respectful approach but also his approach to direction was to try and

someone was script supervising and counting bar cues and Gavin was directing from the gallery. James was the only rogue camera with some of the statics. “I was on cans and he trusted me to get the shots he knew he wanted. It’s a much bigger risk if you can’t see what people are shooting. “Some of the best camera operators around were on this, these guys get the shots and they get them very musically as well. For instance, the Furio camera which is at the front and one of the main tracking cameras, you get these great tracking and parallax shots along the stage while panning and tilting with focusing at the same time to keep pin-sharp focus and fantastic exposure with all these crazy lighting cues going on. The director will make sure the operators will have the right things to pick on that are in their focal range. The beauty of the photography ultimately describes a very musical band.”

ABOVE Extremes of contrast ratio and lighting made this a challenging shoot.

MULTICAM EDITS TEND TO UNRAVEL AS SOON AS YOU CHANGE ONE ANGLE

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