#Magic bullet looks vs davinci resolve movie

#Magic bullet looks vs davinci resolve movie

The tool speaks the language of movie and TV professionals, bringing less experienced directors up to speed quickly when considering a range of possible visual treatments. And heaven knows we are seeing an awful lot of these folks lately!įor the cinematographer/director of photography Magic Bullet Looks can be very effective and even a career-saver. Directors who are at least somewhat film- and TV-literate can choose from a warm and fuzzy Jerry Maguire look, for example, or the heavily diffused feel from Eyes Wide Shut, and then use that look as a starting point for further exploration and tweaking. It really is the ideal way of working with collaborators who can’t articulate what they want. The latest version, Magic Bullet Looks 3.1, offers a very easy to peruse shopping list of over 200 preset looks from high-profile movies and TV shows. Sure we all want to do our best, and we shooters can be particularly obsessive about it, but we need good communication with the above-the-line folks, from particularly the director, whose vision we are entrusted to translate in the most visually effective terms possible.įor several years Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Looks has been my primary go-to tool for communicating with directors, indecisive and not. This all-too-common affliction among mostly young, newbie directors can lend itself disastrously to a dysfunctional, stressful set, failed friendships, and abruptly curtailed collaborations.įor the creative cameraperson, it can be challenging not knowing what the heck the director is thinking in terms of a look. The problem is well recognized and longstanding, and from all indications, only getting worse: Indecisive directors who haven’t a clue but ‘know it when they see it’.

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