The Tape House Companies post Spike Lee's Jim Brown - Post News - post production of documentary film - Brief Article

Post, July, 2002

NEW YORK--Director Spike Lee's latest film documentary. Jim Brown -- All American, underwent post production at the Tape House Companies. The film contains interviews shot on Super 16 processed skip bleach, location footage shot on reversal cross-processed, plus a multitude of archive materials from various video formats.

Negative matcher Noelle Penraat conformed film elements into single-strand rolls of like source elements and created an EDL for auto-assembly of the transferred elements. DP Ellen Kuras supervised color correction of all of the elements with Tape House colorist Joe Gawler, who then transferred the film elements to Panasonic 24p HD D-5 tapes on the Thomson Spirit DataCine using the Pandora MegaDef color corrector with Thomson's Scream grain management tools.

The main title sequence was color corrected and scanned to data files and delivered to Big Film Design. Archive video materials were tape-to-tape color corrected using the Pandora Pogle and were then upconverted to HD by Christian Zak using Tape House Digital Films' proprietary software interpolation.

The entire feature was then conformed and titled by editor Peter Heady on the Quantel iQ from HD D-5 source tapes, and the opening and end title sequence data files created by Big Film Design. 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks editor Mark Fason supervised the iQ online.

Lee screened and fine-tuned each reel prior to his final edit review and approval. After editorial approval, a D-5 master was created and reviewed by post supervisor Barry Brown for the film's eventual fall 2002 run on HBO.