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Color Grading 101: Getting Started with Color Grading

Charles Haine’s educational articles covering topics in cinematography, directing, and film business have been published in StudentFilmmakers Magazine, the #1 Educational Resource for Film and Video Makers.

Charles Haine is a filmmaker and entrepreneur who has worked in the motion picture industry since 1999. He has been teaching color grading since 2008. That same year, Haine founded the production company Dirty Robber, which has gone on to success in feature films, shorts, and commercials. Haine has also colored music videos for bands like My Chemical Romance and Fitz and The Tantrums, spots for brands like BMW, Ford, McDonald’s, Chevy, and ESPN, and countless short and feature films including Leslie Libman’s DisCONNECTED and Adam Bhala Lough’s Hot Sugar’s Cold World. Haine is currently an Assistant Professor at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College and was formerly an Associate Professor at Los Angeles City College. Haine is the author of The Urban Cyclist’s Handbook in addition to another book published by Routledge, Business, and Entrepreneurship for Filmmakers.

Paperback / ISBN: 9780367140052
pub date: 2019-10-18
Published by: Routledge
208 pages

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