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07/01/2015

PO Group Grades And Finishes Film On Mistika

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Post Production Office Group (PO Group) graded and finished American Dreams in China on Mistika.

Produced and directed by Hong Kong's Peter Chan, the Mandarin-language film brought in US$87.6 million at the box office.

PO Group purchased from SGO, a Mistika 4K Colour Grading and Finishing System, a Mistika Assist Station and an SGO SAN to support their Stereo 3D and high end Colour Grading services for film and commercials projects a few years ago. Founded in 2003 by famous entrepreneur and actor, Nicholas Tse, PO Group is the largest post production house in Hong Kong, which grosses over one billion Hong Kong dollars annually, with branches in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing.

American Dreams in China is Peter Chan's first digital camera shoot where he filmed the entire movie using ARRI Alexa and recorded it on Codex. His strong affection for the filmic look set the tone and brief for PO Group's colorist Antonio Zhang to work with, selecting Mistika for the grading and finishing of the entire movie.

Antonio explained the colour grading process: "I chose the ARRI Log C as the default debayer and applied a FPE (Film Print Emulation) 3D LUT on top of all of the shots to mimic the 'filmic look' that Peter Chan was after. Also, my aim was to preserve the highlighted elements and enhance them further by revealing even greater details where possible."

While the 4K Mistika system forms PO Group in Beijing's principal system, the Mistika assistant station is a fully capable file-based Mistika system in its own right, which allows the studio to increase efficiency and throughput, by having an assistant to the main colorist to prepare projects in advance, or to work alongside to ensure the smooth running of even the most complex projects. The SGO SAN not only allows the two Mistika's to share project assets, but also allows the media sharing to extend to all other technical facilities at PO. Projects of various formats occupy the facility's pipeline from 2K to 4K, and S3D to higher frame rates. With the SGO Mistika and SGO SAN, PO Group have built a very efficient pipeline.

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