THE DEVIL’S APPLE
2019
The Devil's Apple written by Tiana luccacioni and directed by Ali Mango is a period price feature about love, lust, and revenge.
The cinematography is to be helmed by the very capable Gabriel Jung. Itching to create something beautiful, Gabe has an affinity for film. Basically born in a studio, he spent much of his life learning the fine craft of film.
During pre-production Gabe had very strongly and appropriately fought for the idea of shooting this period piece on film. Everyone was for the idea, and the plan was to figure out a way to budget this for the film. There was no shying away from it, it was an expense for sure, but undoubtedly a needed one.
PRE-TEST SHOOT
Gabe, Tiana, and Ali had set up a mock up set up with what they had in Gabes living room, doing their best to emulate what the film was going to look like during the test shoot. As soon as I saw the footage is as shocked and inspired to see how much they were able to accomplish with a shoe string budget in someone's apartment living room.
Gabe had shot the test shoot in his apartment with the help of Ali Mango and Taiana Luccianoni. The footage was shot with a Sony a7Rii with a variety of lenses, mainly the 50mm Canon T1.5 and a ef to sony adapter.
The lighting was very enthralling, and the set design was beautifully arranged to create depth and color contrast.
I was tasked with creating a basic color palette of what the direction of the film should go in, when it came to the coloring and grading of the film.
This was a job best suited for Blackmagic's Davinci Resolve 16, as they have a noise reducer and grain emulator that is extreamly advanced allowing for such fine tune control.
The footage was definitely
