Stones in Exile

Client Passion Pictures

Post Envy

Brief Evoke the mood of the original archive footage for a doc about the making of the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street album.

How it was done The film uses archive footage from the documentary Cocksucker Blues and original photographs taken by Dominique Tarle. Vicki Matich used Baselight to make the new footage match the archive, copying the way old film ages and colours fade.

She says: “The most important aspect of the grade and what I was asked to do was to evoke the mood of the original archival footage. The cinematographer Grant Gee shot on a 16mm old Canon just like Robert Frank used and this new footage had to be graded to seamlessly integrate with the archive. This was achieved, for instance, by introducing grain, blowing out some highlights and adding a combination of plugins that mimicked the original  footage and with the colour shots, copying the way old film ages and colours fade. The director Stephen Kijak really wanted it to feel nostalgic and take the audience back to 1970’s”

Watch it 23 May on BBC1