The passage of time in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” both metaphorically and literally frames the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) and his rise through the Philadelphia Mafia to become fr…
Based on Sheeran’s memoir, “I Heard You Paint Houses,” which spans more than a half-century, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto set out to tell the story using a changing look that reflected the passage of time.
For the 108-day shoot, prep was 90 days. That sounds luxurious, but with the finished movie running three and a half hours, the schedule was packed, says Prieto. The shoot had to accommodate many shifts in time and place, as well as sets of people, and accommodate the de-aging-effects technology developed by VFX supervisor Pablo Helman and his team at Industrial Light & Magic.
“The [look-up tables] were applied for dailies and the final [digital intermediate output] for both the film negative shots and the RED Helium shots,” says Prieto. “The LUTs were finessed by mapping the colors to match for film and digital formats. During prep, we did extensive testing to match the look of the film and digital dailies by creating LUTs that gave me the same color reproduction for film and digital capture.
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