Women in Film, Legacy Series: Beverly Wood Interview
Linda Feferman
April 23, 2013
Watch the 26:17 min. interview and documentary on vimeo
Team Deakins: Bev Wood, Journey from Film to Digital
Roger Deakins, James Deakins & Matt Wyman
May 3, 2020
Team Deakins
We speak with Beverly Wood, former Executive VP at Deluxe and Managing Director at eFilm. We discuss the transition in Hollywood from Film to Digital with one of the industries foremost experts on the science behind it all. We discuss how film emulsion actually works, color science, her work with Roger and James, and films like SkyFall, O Brother, Where Art Thou and more.
She’s been with us through our journey from film to digital and is a great source of information in general!
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Beverly Wood. The Mad Scientist of Deluxe Labs
Bennett Moore
December 14, 2020
Soup du Jour
AC demystifies the special processing techniques offered by motion picture laboratories to enhance and manipulate imagery.
Christopher Probst
November 1998
American Cinematographer
Although mainstream audiences may not be consciously aware of the use of special processes when they watch a film in a theater, they certainly felt the effect while watching David Fincher‘s horrific thriller Seven (AC Oct. ’95), which was photographed by Darius Khondji. A number of the film’s release prints were treated with Deluxe‘s Color Contrast Enhancement (CCE) process to heighten the film’s blacks and add a palpable texture and tonality.
Martin Scorsese Collection, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY.
Deluxe Color Contrast Enhancement
(CCE, Deluxe Adjustable Contrast Enhancement, ACE)
Color Contrast Enhancement (CCE) was a silver retention process used at Deluxe Laboratories in the late 1990s that provided an extreme gritty look, with a muted color palette and increased contrast. Its companion process, Adjustable Contrast Enhancement (ACE), allowed for scalable control of contrast and black levels without impairing color saturation.
On David Fincher’s Se7en (1995), a small number of 35mm show prints were made for big city engagements using Deluxe’s Color Contrast Enhancement silver retention process. This enhanced the film’s noirish visual style with heightened contrast, desaturated colors and rich blacks.
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