#Producer Todd Aronauer (@taronauer) takes us #behindthescenes of Season 5 episode of @theshadowsfx “Local News,” detailing his collaboration with #LightIron Los Angeles senior #colorist Ethan Schwartz (@ethan.color). “In season 5, we had the episode titled ‘Local News,’ where a local news team is reporting on a water main break right outside our vampires’ house. The directive for the look of that episode was to be as accurate as possible with the look and style of a real local news package for those scenes. We didn't want to digitally manufacture that look in post, because you can tell it’s an effect trying to mimic the look, which we didn’t like. So it became a lot of research into cameras, lenses, frame rates and conversion specs. We spoke with production companies that regularly shoot the local news format, and we also employed the services of a company that actually creates the lower-thirds and full graphics packages for news affiliates and networks to give it that real, authentic look. Our final colorist at Light Iron, Ethan Schwartz, has been on the show since the beginning and has been absolutely great to collaborate with. He’s a great source of knowledge for how the pipeline might impact the final look. He’s somebody I contact often, as well as our DI producer, Christopher Riggs. Along with our dailies team at Urban Post in Toronto, we were able to throw questions to each other, and hearing their questions off of my questions helps to go back to each of our teams and say, ‘Here are the parameters for our sandbox. We’ll have more leeway to play and be creative on the shoot day if we stay within this workflow structure.’ It’s always very collaborative with Light Iron, and I absolutely value and appreciate everything they do for the show.” Both Todd and #LightIron have continued their collaboration on Season 6 of #WWDITS, which has begun airing/streaming!