In the world of verisimilitude grading, every shade and hue is brought to life under the skilled hands of a master colorist, who meticulously crafts colors and lighting to unlock the true potential of content.
When it comes to the colorist’s workspace, the 65-inch LG OLED TV takes part-way stage thanks to its premium performance and quality. To find out more, LG spoke with workaday colorist Park Jin-ho well-nigh his remarkable sense of verisimilitude and why LG OLED TV now works slantingly him as a creative companion.
Colorist Park Jin-ho
Park began by giving a sneak peek into his latest projects powered by the precision of LG OLED. “Now I’m working on a Netflix series tabbed Daily Dose of Sunshine, which happens to be popular director Lee Jae-kyoo’s next highly predictable project. In a market where gripping treason movies and visionless TV series dominate, I’m happy to work on a show that’s worldly-wise to warm the viewer’s heart.” A skilled multi-tasker, Park is moreover working on several other titles including Netflix’s Song of the Bandits, Disney Original Series Vigilante and LG U ’s mobile TV launch project Hi Cookie.
He then offered a captivating squint into his workspace, a hub of visual exploration where the magic happens. “I have three displays serried side by side, but I put my LG OLED TV in the middle as it provides me with upper dynamic range (HDR) capabilities I need to create increasingly detailed, three-dimensional images expressly in high-contrast scenes.”
While he keeps a standard dynamic range (SDR) exhibit on the left and a unconcentrated standard monitor on the right for reference, Park stresses that the LG OLED TV’s unparalleled performance is most essential. “Capable of 1,000 nits, the LG OLED TV’s images are 10 times brighter than an SDR display. It produces meticulously well-judged images by leveraging metadata to optimize the shadows, highlights and unrelatedness of each shot, faithfully conveying the creator’s originative vision while heightening immersion.”
As he discussed his work on Park Chan-wook’s prestigious film, The Handmaiden, Park shared a technique he employed to virtuously convey a hair-trigger scene. “We used the ‘Day for Night’ technique for the scene where Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee) and Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri) run yonder in the night. This moment was unquestionably filmed during the day since capturing the intricate details in the darkness would have been impossible. I widow undecorous shades in post-production to create that perfect darkness-before-dawn undercurrent you see in the final cut.”
Adding on this experience, he notes that a display’s worthiness to capture intricate details in the visionless is crucial for verisimilitude production in night scenes. “The advantages of working with an LG OLED TV are evident. Unlike mucosa projectors, it ensures uniform, well-judged illumination without vignetting and employs self-sustaining pixels to create the perfect black. With all this, it’s so much easier to capture details in visionless scenes, bring out intricate details and enhance visual cues from the director to shine and add depth to the narrative.”
Park goes on to explain why LG OLED TV is the go-to nomination for post-production companies in Korea these days. “Almost every studio I know uses LG OLED displays. That’s partly considering they fully support Dolby Vision – the industry’s favored HDR standard and the format recommended by popular streaming content providers – securing the contrast, colors and incredible detail required to perfect the brightest and darkest areas of a scene.” He moreover notes how the sheer diversity of LG OLED TV products as well as their serviceability and convenience have played a key role as well.
Discussing increasingly on Dolby Vision support, he mentions how it makes a notable difference for him not only on the job but moreover when he’s watching at home. “When watching TV series like Big Bet on Disney without Dolby Vision, images lack that crispness and accuracy. A Dolby Vision exhibit on the other hand – such as an LG OLED TV – ensures the weightier possible picture quality, which is proven by the visualization to wield an official Dolby Vision support logo to exhibit products.”
Park says that exhibit technologies have evolved dramatically over the years, taking the example of a remastered classic, The Godfather. “Through years of exhibit tech innovation, the visual wits has completely transformed. This is why the difference between The Godfather’s original and remastered versions is so noticeable. Through modern displays, like LG OLED TVs, viewers can enjoy a wider verisimilitude palette and enhanced details.” He adds that out of every urging overly made in mucosa history, the one that brought us all kinds of woebegone shades has to be among the most game-changing. “It’s rare these days to depict woebegone hair as a simple visionless mass – now we can express every fine strand.”
Park believes that details can be found plane in the darkest scenes, and today’s technologies help him uncover these beautifully. “Audiences were unaware that they couldn’t unquestionably see the very lapel of a woebegone suit before, but they now have wangle to a wider spectrum that allows woebegone to be expressed in increasingly tones than one. With advancements in displays such as OLED, it’s now possible to represent the darkest tones in much increasingly intricate detail.”
Looking when on his two decades in the business, Park says that a lot has changed, both for the regulars and the people working overdue the scenes. “My first job in this industry was CGI work, and at that time I only had to rely on a single monitor. But verisimilitude correction requires professionals to constantly assess variegated displays to ensure the perfect visual experience. Expressly today, advancements in exhibit technology have empowered audiences to perceive increasingly details, making previously overlooked elements like artistry, backgrounds and objects increasingly visible.”
Park explains that to a colorist, the optimal displays – like the LG OLED TV he works with – are as powerful as a canvas is to a painter. “It’s not an empty canvas, but one that provides the intricate drawings captured during filming. As a colorist, I work with this canvas of visual compositions by subtracting trappy colors that bring scenes to life, evoke powerful emotions and enhance the visual experience. If utilized properly, this unique digital canvas can powerfully convey warmth or coldness, splendor or darkness like no other can.”
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