Evolutions, Soho's largest independent post production facility, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the contract to complete the post production on Dave's new series, 'Red Dwarf: Back to Earth'.
The return of the popular programme was shot on the Red One camera at 4k and will contain over 240 VFX shots making it one of the most advanced and visually impacting programmes in 2009.
Produced by Grant Naylor Productions and premiering on Dave over the Easter weekend from Friday 10th April at 9pm, the three-part series follows the misadventures of the reunited crew of Rimmer (Chris Barrie), Cat (Danny John-Jules), Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) and Lister (Craig Charles) as the last remaining human.
Doug Naylor, the writer, director and executive producer made the decision early on to shoot on a Red One camera and choose one of Red's first users Mike Seymour of special effects company and online training school FXPHD (www.fxphd.com) to act as Second Unit Director and VFX Supervisor. Mike is currently working with 16 VFX artists around the world on the production.
Meanwhile Evolutions has just edited the promos which are starting to TX now on Dave and at www.joindave.co.uk and will be utilising its workflow expertise to post produce the three part series and special 'Red Dwarf: The Making of Back to Earth' that accompanies it (premiering Sunday 12th April at 9.30pm on Dave). Offline will be carried out by Nick Ames onsite at Shepperton Studios. Final post production moves to Evolutions where the series will be onlined on the Symphony Nitris DX by Nick King, graded on Baselight by Nick Adams, with audio completed on Pro-tools by Mark Owen.
Evolutions has set up a bespoke RED workflow for the conform and grade, both using the Red rushes. Colourist Nick Adams will be using Baselight 4.1 and will grade with complete access to all the original media at full resolution.
Simon Kanjee, Managing Director, Evolutions comments: "We are enormously delighted to be working on the new Red Dwarf, especially so as it's at the forefront of the current wave of Red-shot productions." |
