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Galloping Ghost
Enhancement (CCE) process.
the CCE process, you add a

"With
lot of
grain, and I thought the Vision 500T
[5279] was just too grainy. I love the
texture of grain, though, and I think
the grain [that the CCE added]
works well, because the images have
the quality of an old illustration. I
don't like it when the grain starts to

blacker blacks. However, your

is different than the ACE process,
which is adjustable; with CCE, the

and desaturate the colors. We did

someone who
doesn't know much about photogra¬

one

maintain that

make the

same

look when

me,

that would add the
Tim

we

retention processes

about it and he said, 'You know,

maybe not - maybe it's better just to
do it in color and keep everything
very monochromatic, but still keep
all of these shades of grey, dark blue,
very dark brown and green." He

always there when

we

did

things,

so we went

with the

CCE process.

"Once we decided
had

on

the look,

meeting with all of the
departments, because CCE really

we

talked

lab.

offered by the
According to Wood, "CCE is a
proprietary process that produces a
much higher contrast and adds more
grain. When you have more silver [in
the print,] you get a grainier look and

was

the process tests. It was a lot of fun to
have him there, and we liked the

I'd shoot this movie in
we

most contrast

and desaturate the colors the most.

that "from the

black-and-white.' But then

of three silver-

a

flashing and not
flashing the film, and we decided to
go with CCE, which was the process

beginning, Tim said, 'If the studio
would let

contrast

bunch of tests, like

same

notes

was

would enhance the film's

dupe."

Lubezki

me

could do in the

distinguishing factor in the answerprint process is that you can't really
adjust the blacks or the amount of
desaturation. Our job at Deluxe is to
get the look that Tim and Chivo want
at the answer-print stage, and then

begins to feel it. If

Mossman, CCE is

if there

anything I
photography to get
that look, so we began talking with
Beverly about different processes that

become obtrusive, and the audience

phy mentions grain, it means they're
perceiving it too much."
Developed by Deluxe's vice
president of technical services,
Beverly Wood, and executive vice
president of engineering, Colin

asked

black
[values] can also plug up more. The
matter of getting the color, the
balance and the contrast right comes
from the standpoint of density. CCE

a

affects the

contrast

and blacks in the

images," he continues. "Ian Robinson
was our

and

contact at

Deluxe London,

consulted very closely with
him. The costume designer, Colleen
we

Atwood,

was

doing

a

lot of stuff in

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