"Mank" A Good Movie In ... Black & White, Sort Of ...

Steve K

I saw this as the opening credits rolled:

“Photographed in Hi-Dynamic Range”

I don't recall seeing that before, more here:

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/mank-shooting-hi-dynamic-range-black-and-white-1234602414/

So how do we do that in Carrara?  

 

Dartanbeck

Great article!

With that article as inspiration, if I wanted to do that in Carrara I'd use similar techniques for the lighting, but leave the B&W for post along with the Day2Night.

You use Veags, right? I bet that has amazing options for al of that! I know that my DaVinci Resolve could Rock it with a lot of practice. That thing is so powerful and full of options that I'm still such a downright Noob!!! LOL

Steve K

With that article as inspiration, if I wanted to do that in Carrara I'd use similar techniques for the lighting, but leave the B&W for post along with the Day2Night.

You use Veags, right? I bet that has amazing options for al of that! I know that my DaVinci Resolve could Rock it with a lot of practice. That thing is so powerful and full of options that I'm still such a downright Noob!!! LOL

Good points.  Vegas may have some tools that apply, or maybe Photoshop on a JPG sequence?  Or maybe the source images have to be HDR?  I dunno, but the movie got my attention.  Plus a lot of other interesting techniques ... my wife at one scene said, "that looks like a movie dream" ... it was a normal scene sequence in the flow of the story, but ... OK, this is a Hollywood story, after all ... 

A favorite scene, just as an aside ... a young but wildly successful Orson Welles has a huge fight with Mank about the script and Mank's drinking, and throws a huge liquor case against the wall.  Mank says "That's what we need when she leaves him" ...  and Mank, ignoring Welles and the breakage, starts writing ... Welles turns and thinks ... and says "Maybe" ... and walks out ... 

I don't care much for dialogue, except when its that good.