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In 1978 Rick started working for Producers Color Service Film Lab, as a film color timer. The dinosaur for today’s Telecine Colorists. He worked on features and commercials, everything from “Evil Dead” to Chevy commercials In 1986 he accepted a position as a Colorist at Producers color service in the Telecine department. In his early years, Rick developed an eye for the art of color grading commercials, music videos and features. Rick recalls one particular job he was working on with Academy Award winning Director Haskell Wexler on a National Chevy truck spot. “The spot was shot with cowboys and bucking broncos in a corral, with Chevy trucks being featured in the film. The film was shot and colored with a old time western feel, warm and rich.” In 1994 Rick accepted a Senior Colorist position with GTN in Oak Park, MI. For the next 12 years, as motion picture film transfer equipment evolved, Rick and GTN put together the most up to date film transfer equipment such as the Spirit Telecine and Davinci color corrector. During his tenure there he worked on many types of film projects. Color grading for BBDO, Campbell-Ewald, Doner, J Walter Thompson, Darcy. In December of 2005, Rick accepted a position with Milagro Post as DI Colorist. By the following April, he and Milagro Post had put together the most powerful film scanning and color grading department between New York and L.A. The workflow consisted of scanned 2K image files and coloring grading in a nonlinear environment. Rick’s toolset is comprised of the Spirit 2K Datacine film scanner and Quantel’s iQ 2K with Pablo color corrector. In the coming months, the newly built DI suite at Milagro Post became a real strength in the Midwest and Detroit markets for color correction. “We have worked on over a million feet of film for commercials, and movie features. Some of the highlights were very clever Jeep spots produced from BBDO’s Detroit office. Fantastic cinematography. And we were able to color grade these spots to the point of simply beautiful pictures.” “After spending almost 30 years looking at pictures from film, I am still so wired about pictures”, says Rick. “Every year ideas for shots get wilder, cameras get slicker, and film coloring equipment gets more creative. And every year my pictures get tighter, funkier, cooler, moodier, and just sweeter. I can hardly wait for the next frame”. |
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