Pre-Production: Inspired Practitioner Peter Jackson
Recently, Peter Jackson, director of Lord of The Rings and many other well recognised films has recolored WW1 Footage. This is something I have watched to research how I can make arcive footage different and also help aid the storytelling process.
The documentary is called 'They Shall Not Grow Old.' Somehting that was clearly very vital to this process was access to all the videos and photos. This is something myself and the rest of the world has not seen beofre and is a real revolution in the documentary community. The following is a quick look at how Jackson colorized this 100-year-old footage to give the world a new look at the Great War:
As an editor this is really interesting not only from an archive perspecive but from a color grading perspecitve. The fact they have spent so long coloring this footage frame by frame is remarkable and it has taught me to not rush color grading. In my color graidng tests I have found that I can be more precise in my colorinmg and rather than just chosing a filter on premier pro, I can take it to the next level with softwares like Devinchi. It has brought the archive footage a new liife and to me is somethiing millenials need to watch. I think because all we are shown is black and white footage, we almost disatach ourselves from the tragedies of wat reall happend and because of what we see, we can't visualise life then in color, it is just black and white. “To memorialize these soldiers a hundred years later is to try to bring some of their humanity back into the world again,” Jackson says, to "stop them being a black-and-white cliche. Because they didn’t see the war in black and white. They did not experience this war in black and white. They experienced the war in full living color, so why shouldn’t we now with the technology we have turn it from a black-and-white war back into a color war again?”(Peter Jackson, 2018).
Peter Jackson and his team had to account for much more than simply adding color. The project would have also included correcting the speed and jerkiness of the film. As you can see from the video camera equipment back then was nowhere near as advanced as what it is now; cameramen during the war used hand-cranked cameras, meaning the speed of the film can differ within the same shot. updating this would have been a nightmare task and "using Photoshop and other software, the black-and-white shots were colorized with more realism and accuracy than ever before." (PetaPixel, 2018)
Reference:
Your Bibliography: PetaPixel. (2018). How Peter Jackson Colorized 100-Year-Old WWI Footage. [online] Available at: https://petapixel.com/2018/12/03/how-peter-jackson-colorized-100-year-old-wwi-footage/ [Accessed 4 Dec. 2018].
My Modern Met. (2018). ‘Lord of the Rings’ Director Colorizes Archival Film to Bring WWI Documentary to Life. [online] Available at: https://mymodernmet.com/they-shall-not-grow-old-peter-jackson/ [Accessed 6 Dec. 2018].
The documentary is called 'They Shall Not Grow Old.' Somehting that was clearly very vital to this process was access to all the videos and photos. This is something myself and the rest of the world has not seen beofre and is a real revolution in the documentary community. The following is a quick look at how Jackson colorized this 100-year-old footage to give the world a new look at the Great War:
As an editor this is really interesting not only from an archive perspecive but from a color grading perspecitve. The fact they have spent so long coloring this footage frame by frame is remarkable and it has taught me to not rush color grading. In my color graidng tests I have found that I can be more precise in my colorinmg and rather than just chosing a filter on premier pro, I can take it to the next level with softwares like Devinchi. It has brought the archive footage a new liife and to me is somethiing millenials need to watch. I think because all we are shown is black and white footage, we almost disatach ourselves from the tragedies of wat reall happend and because of what we see, we can't visualise life then in color, it is just black and white. “To memorialize these soldiers a hundred years later is to try to bring some of their humanity back into the world again,” Jackson says, to "stop them being a black-and-white cliche. Because they didn’t see the war in black and white. They did not experience this war in black and white. They experienced the war in full living color, so why shouldn’t we now with the technology we have turn it from a black-and-white war back into a color war again?”(Peter Jackson, 2018).
Peter Jackson and his team had to account for much more than simply adding color. The project would have also included correcting the speed and jerkiness of the film. As you can see from the video camera equipment back then was nowhere near as advanced as what it is now; cameramen during the war used hand-cranked cameras, meaning the speed of the film can differ within the same shot. updating this would have been a nightmare task and "using Photoshop and other software, the black-and-white shots were colorized with more realism and accuracy than ever before." (PetaPixel, 2018)
Reference:
Your Bibliography: PetaPixel. (2018). How Peter Jackson Colorized 100-Year-Old WWI Footage. [online] Available at: https://petapixel.com/2018/12/03/how-peter-jackson-colorized-100-year-old-wwi-footage/ [Accessed 4 Dec. 2018].
My Modern Met. (2018). ‘Lord of the Rings’ Director Colorizes Archival Film to Bring WWI Documentary to Life. [online] Available at: https://mymodernmet.com/they-shall-not-grow-old-peter-jackson/ [Accessed 6 Dec. 2018].
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