June 11, 2006. My brother sent me this quote that comes from Lydia Ward.
"I watched the French film "Amelie" the other night (wonderful little film, btw), but the DVD came with extras and one of them was an interview with the guy who shot the film, did the still photos, and then did the photo enhancement during the editing process. His emphasis was on "polishing,", and I found the interview fascinating. His approach was to view each shot of each scene then decide what he wanted the audience to focus on the most -- what was most important to the story in that particular scene. Then he spent time enhancing that portion of the film so as to make sure that the audience would SEE the most important thing. For example, if the "store front" was most important to the scene and story, and the store front was green, then he would make the green of the store front even greener (digitally enhanced it so that it would appear lighter, brighter, and greener than anything else in the picture). He also faded any other shade of green, or he took it out altogether and replaced with a tan or brown. I thought this was a good way to look at polishing -- it would even apply to polishing stories told with words instead of pictures."
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