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A movie like this comes once in a millennium. 🔌 In our excitement for the new apocalyptic comedy #Y2KMovie (@y2kmovie), we went #behindthescenes with #cinematographer Bill Pope, ASC on his collaboration with #LightIron and #Panavision for this project. “I knew #director Kyle Mooney (@kylemooney) from working with him on Zoolander 2 (I helped out on the principal photography after the #DoP of record had to leave), and from Seinfeld’s Unfrosted. He just struck me as an incredibly committed and hilariously surprising comic actor. We connected and talked on the films and I just stored that away in my wee mind. When he and Evan Winter were looking for a DP, somehow my name came up. The VA Primes have a great light distortion which felt period to us. Softer toward the edges, they felt filmish. Light Iron works closely with Panavision and spoke to us very early about being our post solution. We started working on a LUT as we were checking out gear. I approached collaborating with Senior #Colorist Charles Bunnag (@charlesbunnag) how everyone would: references, feel, discussion. It’s like being at a wine tasting, but without the wine. Wah! Certainly our touchstone was Dazed and Confused. Not just the content of the film, but the way Richard Linklater and Lee Daniels blocked out scenes with multiple actors coming from multiple directions was thrilling in its seemingly casual blocking, that on closer viewing is not so easily done. And we wanted Y2K to feel like it was shot on film, with grain rolling around, and the color space of that film. There were others, like Breaking Away which had great biking scenes and a laid back approach. We wanted a feeling of lightness and an invisible camera for the first part of the film. So we also studied Superbad. Kyle and Evan are also enamored of more mannered films, like Evil Dead, so those also came into play in the second half of the film, after midnight on Y2K.”

"Y2K" Director: Kyle Mooney @kylemooney Director of Photography: Bill Pope #colorbylightiron @panavisionofficial Light Iron Producer: Drew Dale Light Iron Production Coordinator: Jason Iraheta @jielden Light Iron Color Assist: Evan Okada @evanokada Light Iron Workflow Manager: Justin Potter @yastiinpoter #color #colorgrading #colorist #vfx #cinematography #cinematographer #dp #dop #y2k #a24

Big thanks to @roberteicholz aka "Captain Bob" for flying @steven_j_scott and me over the bay. It was so great to finally visit you both after so long. You guys are the best. #sanfrancisco #bayarea #pilot #flight

"Greedy People" Director: Potsy Ponciroli @getpotsy Director of Photography: Erick Koretz @erickoretz_dp #colorbylightiron @panavisionofficial Light Iron Producer: Mackenzie Fuller @spuds_morow Light Iron Production Coordinator: Jason Iraheta @jielden Light Iron Workflow Manager: Justin Potter @yastiinpoter #color #colorgrading #colorist #vfx #cinematography #providence #rhodeisland

"Bring me Solo and the Wookie! They will suffer for this outage!"

“[Co-showrunner] Jon Steinberg and I have had a great partnership with Light Iron since we launched our series The Old Man for FX in late 2019. When Disney greenlit our next series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Light Iron was our first call, and the team recommended we work with Charles Bunnag. Since Charles had done extensive work with ILM’s StageCraft technology on The Mandalorian, we knew he would be the perfect fit for our ambitions, as ILM had just built a new volume stage for our series in Vancouver.” Co-showrunner Dan Shotz (@danshotzy) details the collaboration with #LightIron senior colorist @CharlesBunnag for the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians (@percyseries), shot by cinematographers Pierre Gill CSC (@pierregill_dp) and Jules O’Loughlin ACS ASC (@jules.oloughlin). “Charles was on our series from day one as we built the overall look for this show. While we created assets for the ILM StageCraft volume wall, Charles helped us define how the backgrounds would read on the digital screens. It was crucial to have someone with Charles’ experience guiding us. He was instrumental in creating the initial look, the dailies look, and our final look. His collaboration with Pierre Gill and Jules O’Loughlin was beautiful to watch.” Bunnag adds: “Dan’s mandate was that everything had to feel real and not like a fantasy. Even though this is a show that deals with fantastic elements and the gods of Olympus, every kid who watches it needed to feel that they were already in this world and not like it was some fantasy that they could only dream about. Once that baseline was set with Dan, we then pushed the look while still staying within the mandate of ‘real.’ The in-camera finals we received in the DI looked great, with all the interactive lighting benefits one would expect from a virtual production stage. Pierre Gill and Jules O’Loughlin shot such incredible images with such intention that it allowed me to go further than usual with my first pass just based on instinct. From there, the DI allowed to us to take the integration of the shots to another level by pushing and pulling contrast levels and adding atmosphere and lighting effects.”

"McVeigh" Director: Mike Ott @ott_mike Director of Photography: Daniel Vignal @danielvignal #colorbylightiron @panavisionofficial Light Iron Senior Producer: Rebecca Erbe @rebeccaerbe Light Iron Producer: Christopher Riggs @autosav3studios Light Iron Color Assist: Evan Okada @evanokada Light Iron Production Coordinators: Jason Iraheta @jielden and Vanessa Marcola @vmarcolla Light Iron Workflow Manager: Justin Potter @yastiinpoter "McVeigh" premieres today at the @tribeca film festival in #nyc . Coloring this movie with DP @danielvignal and director @ott_mike was a such a wonderful and collaborative experience. Thank you, both! #color #colorgrading #colorist #vfx #cinematography #tribeca #tribecafilmfestival

Santiago Calatrava fishbone stuff. #newyork #ny #nyc #manhattan #wtc #architecture #santiagocalatrava #calatrava

"I.S.S" Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite Director of Photography: @nickremymatthewsacs #colorbylightiron @panavisionofficial Light Iron Senior Producer: Rebecca Erbe @rebeccaerbe Light Iron Producer: Christopher Riggs @autosav3studios Light Iron Color Assist: Evan Okada @evanokada Light Iron Production Coordinators: Jason Iraheta @jielden and Vanessa Marcola @vmarcolla Light Iron Workflow Manager: Justin Potter @yastiinpoter #iss #nasa #space #earth #color #colorgrading #colorist #vfx #cinematography #arri

"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Season 1: Episode 8 - "The Prophecy Comes True" EPs/Showrunners: @danshotzy and Johnathan Steinberg Co-Producer: PJ Tancinco Director of Photography: @pierregill_dp Senior Visual Effects Supervisor: Erik Henry Associate Producers: @the_zoeneary @theburz Post Production Coordinator: Savannah Larsen #colorbylightiron @panavisionofficial Light Iron Senior Producer: Rebecca Erbe @rebeccaerbe Light Iron Producer: Christopher Riggs @autosav3studios Light Iron Editor: Michael Ochoa @thisismichaelochoa Light Iron Color Assist: Evan Okada @evanokada Light Iron Production Coordinators: Jason Iraheta @jielden and Vanessa Marcola @vmarcolla Light Iron Workflow Manager: Justin Potter @yastiinpoter Light Iron Engineering and Image Calibration: Neil Branch @sunndials #percyjackson #percyjacksonandtheolympians #disney #disneyplus #color #colorgrading #colorist #vfx #ilm #mpc #streaming #cinematography #sony #sonycine #sonyvenice #venice #postproduction #mythology #greekmythology #ares #zeus #poseidon #newyork #newyorkcity #ny #nyc #empirestatebuilding #olympus @percyseries

"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Season 1: Episode 7 - "We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of" EPs/Showrunners: @danshotzy and Johnathan Steinberg Co-Producer: PJ Tancinco Director of Photography: @jules.oloughlin Senior Visual Effects Supervisor: Erik Henry Associate Producers: @the_zoeneary @theburz Post Production Coordinator: Savannah Larsen #colorbylightiron @panavisionofficial Light Iron Senior Producer: Rebecca Erbe @rebeccaerbe Light Iron Producer: Christopher Riggs @autosav3studios Light Iron Editor: Michael Ochoa @thisismichaelochoa Light Iron Color Assist: Evan Okada @evanokada Light Iron Production Coordinators: Jason Iraheta @jielden and Vanessa Marcola @vmarcolla Light Iron Workflow Manager: Justin Potter @yastiinpoter Light Iron Engineering and Image Calibration: Neil Branch @sunndials #percyjackson #percyjacksonandtheolympians #disney #disneyplus #color #colorgrading #colorist #vfx #ilm #mpc #streaming #cinematography #sony #sonycine #sonyvenice #venice #postproduction #mythology #greekmythology #hades #tartarus #cerberus @percyseries

"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Season 1: Episode 6 - "We Take a Zebra to Vegas" EPs/Showrunners: @danshotzy and Johnathan Steinberg Co-Producer: PJ Tancinco Director of Photography: @pierregill_dp Senior Visual Effects Supervisor: Erik Henry Associate Producers: @the_zoeneary @theburz Post Production Coordinator: Savannah Larsen #colorbylightiron @panavisionofficial Light Iron Senior Producer: Rebecca Erbe @rebeccaerbe Light Iron Producer: Christopher Riggs @autosav3studios Light Iron Editor: Michael Ochoa @thisismichaelochoa Light Iron Color Assist: Evan Okada @evanokada Light Iron Production Coordinators: Jason Iraheta @jielden and Vanessa Marcola @vmarcolla Light Iron Workflow Manager: Justin Potter @yastiinpoter Light Iron Engineering and Image Calibration: Neil Branch @sunndials #percyjackson #percyjacksonandtheolympians #disney #disneyplus #color #colorgrading #colorist #vfx #ilm #mpc #streaming #cinematography #sony #sonycine #sonyvenice #venice #postproduction #mythology #greekmythology #lasvegas #vegas #casino #santamonica #linmanuelmiranda #hermes @percyseries