Local Hero is proud to have completed the DI for Universal Pictures Pitch Perfect, starring Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp and Rebel Wilson. The film is directed by Jason Moore (the Broadway smash Avenue Q) and lensed by Julio Macat. This is our third film with Gold Circle Films after ATM and The Haunting in Georgia. The film's release date has been moved up a week to September 28th.
Shot entirely on the Arri Alexa camera, the film used the "direct to edit" Prores 4444 LogC capture, edited in Avid, and graded on Assimilate Scratch.
If you haven't caught the trailer, check it out here at this link.
Here at Local Hero we exclusively grade our films in an environment that targets the DCI-P3 spec, which is the native color space for digital projection in theaters. This allows for a much wider color and contrast gamut than a traditional film targeted workflow, and we took full advantage of that for this film. The diverse cast of uncannily good singers is featured throughout the film singing and dancing on stage with exaggerated colors and flares from the tricked-out stage lighting design. Be sure to watch it in a digital cinema (which these days will be hard not to do) to take full advantage of that.
The director and cinematographer worked at length with colorist Leandro Marini to bring out the colorful energy of the film without sacrificing a natural feel. On top of the grade, we used every trick available to liven it it up, including more lense flares, glowing and glistening lights.
The buzz on the film has been full throttle lately. Here is a promo (not footage of the movie) shot exclusively for MTV's site HollywoodCrush:
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And a scene from the film:
If you see the film in theatres in a couple weeks, be sure to stop back and let us know how you thought it looked on screen.