Colorist Services

Here is how this works in practice. We place colorists from Iceland's small post-prod community, most based in and around Reykjavík and working in calibrated grading suites on DaVinci Resolve and Baselight. Our colorists handle dailies looks, conform and final grade for features, series, commercials and documentaries, and work fluently in English with directors, DPs and overseas post supervisors. The country's finishing base is concentrated rather than large, so we match each project to a colorist whose reel fits its genre and delivery spec, and for high-volume episodic work we set up extra grading capacity with partner facilities in the UK and mainland Europe while keeping an Iceland-based lead for scene matching.

Here is the short of it. We also advise shoots on routing qualifying Icelandic post spend through the 25% production cost reimbursement, rising to 35% for qualifying larger shoots and TV series, so finishing work performed in the country is planned against recoverable cost.

Here is the breakdown. Iceland confronts a colorist with light found almost nowhere else. The subarctic, maritime setting delivers near-24-hour daylight under the Midnight Sun in June and only four to five hours of low, prized light in midwinter, when the aurora borealis looks overhead. Footage shot at Jökulsárlón, on the black sand of Reynisfjara, across Vatnajökull or in the geothermal steam of Mývatn carries colour info — ice blues, basalt blacks, sulphur yellows — that rewards a colorist who knows the source environment.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Productions from 'Interstellar' to 'Game of Thrones' chose the country precisely for this palette. The grade is where that material is shaped into the otherworldly look audiences associate with the island. A colorist familiar with Icelandic light protects highlight detail in snow and glacier and resolves the country's fast-changing weather into a steady finish.