From London to Chicago, we've brought together the latest and greatest grades by Mill Colourists. Take a look at top work and recent news from The Mill Colour team:

COLOUR NEWS

Oisin O’Driscoll, Colourist at The Mill LDN, was shortlisted for several awards: Best Grade in a Music Video at this year’s UK MVA's for Radiohead 'I Promise'; Best Colour Grading International at the Kinsale Shark Awards for his work on Alt-J 'Deadcrush' and Sampha 'No One Knows Me (Like My Piano)'.

(L to R) Radiohead 'I Promise'; Alt-J 'Deadcrush'; Sampha 'No One Knows Me (Like My Piano)'

Luke Morrison, Head of Colour at The Mill CHI, was featured in Filmlight's 'Meet the Colourist', as well as being interviewed in Digital Media World. Matthew Osborne, Colourist at The Mill LA, discusses ‘The Craft of Color’ in Post Magazine’s October issue.

COLOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Seamus O’Kane

John Lewis ‘Moz the Monster’
Director: Michel Gondry | Production: Partizan | DP: Tim Maurice Jones | Agency: adam&eveDDB 

James Bamford

Debenhams ‘You Shall’
Director: Hanna Maria Heidrich | Production: Believe Media UK | DP: Christophe Collette | Agency: JWT

Mill Colourist James Bamford explains his process, "We aimed to give the spot a genuine Christmassy feel using rich and warm grades whilst keeping it Cinematic. The shot with Ewan McGregor added an additional challenge as the shots of him were added after the original grade and therefore had to be regraded to seamlessly fit in with the rest of the spot.

"Having worked closely with Director Hanna Maria Heinrich before we had already established a great relationship meaning we were able to communicate and share test grades with ease despite Hanna being out of the country during the grading process. This ensured that Hanna was still heavily involved in how the spot looked as a Director."

Dave ‘Luddy’ Ludlam

Heathrow ‘It’s a Wonderful Flight’
Director: dom&nic | Production: Outsider | DP: Tom Townend | Agency: Havas

The festive feel of the spot was enhanced in the grade by Mill Colourist David ‘Luddy’ Ludlam, paying careful attention to complementing each historical era, whilst matching the overall colour palette.

Mick Vincent

Chanel ‘Gabrielle'
Director: Ringan Ledwidge | Production: Les Fils De x Rattling Stick | DP: Hoyte Van Hoytema

Oisin O’Driscoll

Alt-J ‘Dead Crush'
Director: Young Replicant | Production: Pulse Films | DP: Martijn Van Broekhuizen

Mill Colourist Oisin O’Driscoll shares, "Working with Director Young Replicant was quite an honour for me, I've been a long-standing fan of his work and was very much into the track and treatment from an early stage. This drove me to research a lot of styles and looks in advance of working on the material. We tried a number of effects and decided to start with strong colour separation and strong mid tone contrasts would be best suited to the narrative of the track.

"Challenges arose when creating strong mid-tone contrasts as we wanted to preserve the highlights and shadows. To overcome this and create a more controlled look we reduced the contrast and added a blue-green tint to enhance the stylistic content of the video.

"I wanted to create a powerful yet pristine look so I added a slight sharpen to the shadows in order to enhance definition and subsequently de-saturated the black tones. The result was a clean and diverse image that maintains all the frame’s details, which I felt was very important in order for the viewer to fully connect with the movement of the piece.
"In the final stages of the grade, I worked on the highlights to create consistency and add further naturalism to the images. Each shot has amazing composition, choreography, cinematography and colour and I hope the viewer enjoys the images as much as I do."

Fergus McCall

Playstation ‘Rivalry’
Director: Wayne McClammy | Production: Hungry Man | DP: Dion Beebe | Agency: BBH

Damien Van Der Cruyssen

JAY-Z ‘Marcy Me’
Director: Ben and Joshua Safdie | Production: The Directors Bureau | DP: Darius Khondji

Mikey Rossiter

Volvo ‘Long Distance’
Director: Dan DiFelice | Production: Biscuit Filmworks | DP: Jeff Cronenweth | Agency: Grey NY

Josh Bohoskey

Dave East ‘Phone Jumpin ft. Wiz Khalifa’
Director: Sebastian Sdaigui & Fidel Ruiz-Healy | Production: Forty Forty Films | DP: Nicholas Matthews

Nicholas Metcalf

The Future is Fearless
Director: The Hudson Dusters | Production: Greenpoint Pictures | DP: Logan Roos

Adam Scott

HP ‘Reinvent Gifting’
Director: Sara Dunlop | Production: Rattling Stick | Agency: BBDO

Gregory Reese

Cover Girl ‘Made in the Mirror’
Director: Matt Lambert | Production: Prettybird | DP: Tracy Hauser | Agency: Droga5

Derek Hansen

St. Vincent ‘Los Ageless’
Director: Willo Perron | Production: Ways & Means | DP: Tarin Anderson

Matthew Osborne

State Farm ‘Neighbors'
Director: Michael Sugrue | Production: Gravy Films | DP: Jon Chema | Agency: DDB CHI

Luke Morrison

Kitchenaid ‘Yours for the Making (Director's Cut)’
Director: Julius Metoyer & Will Hoffman | Production: MJZ | DP: Alwin Kuchler | Agency: Digitas

The grade, completed by Head of Colour at The Mill in Chicago Luke Morrison, was instrumental to the piece. He shares, “This type of work is the perfect example of how collaboration across all disciplines allows for the best creative to shine through. The visuals were perfectly cut and synced to the track. With those components seamlessly sewn together, it was natural for me to proceed in the same way with the grade. We wanted to underscore the parallels within each juxtaposed shot and reinforce the continuous thread running through the edit: balancing kitchen scenes and outdoor scenes, while keeping a clean and natural aesthetic."

Mikey Pehanich

Nike ‘Sixth Sense’
Director: Nic Yiallouris | Production: Mill+ | DP: Dan Frantz | Agency: Highdive

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