Recently, it was asked that the film be transferred to 35mm film for cinema use over in the Philippines! As a country with a large Catholic population, it’s no surprise these people want to see the film.

However, the film master itself is in standard definition, kept on Digibeta tapes.  But, to get the film ready for film transfer, it needed to be converted…. firstly from standard definition to high definition, and then from PAL European TV standards on 25 frames per second, to 35mm’s 24fps.

The good people behind the movie asked us to take care of this process.  We happily did this, exporting the converted film to HDCAM ready for us to ship out to the labs out in the Philippines.

So far as we know, everything has gone smoothly and soon the public there will be able to sit in proper theatres to watch the full film!

We were asked to create the background elements and opening titles, and to put the rest of the project together after the initial edit.

The interviews were all shot in HD against a green-screen, which naturally meant all our assets needed to also work in high definition.  We chroma-keyed the green-screen, and layered everything together, plus also creating the title sequence.

The resulting video was then delivered to the client on Blu-ray.

Not content with getting their work on national television (with 1.5 million viwers) before they’d even finished getting the company incorporated (3 years ahead of that particular goal), the boys at Brace recently completed a project which will be shown in cinemas soon in 2008!

The job, completed in November 2007, means that Dom and Paul’s goal of getting work into cinema within 10 years of starting the company has been utterly obliterated – by a 7 year margin!

The anti-drink drive project, which came from video company ST16, had already been graded once (see other blog posts) and exported by our team for use initally on youtube, and was highly rated there too. All the filming was done in High Definition, so it was pretty close to the resolution required for film.

We played with the colours a bit more, and made all the text as sharp as possible, before we exported the whole thing, ready to go to film.

Below are some frames from the piece in HD:

For those people in the Lancashire area, we hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed working on it!

And in the video below, you can see the Before and After of what we were given and what we did: