What can a colorist learn from a Costume Designer? Interview with Kari Perkins

Color Talk with Tom Parish

Have you seen any of these movies - Boyhood which is winning awards left and right.. Dazed and Confused, Fast Food Nation, A Scanner Darkly, Bernie? In this interview I ask an award winning custom designer Kari Perkins who is from Austin Texas to explore with me what a colorist can learn from a costume designer and how that collaboration can impact the creative strength of a production. Kari and I discuss the renewed importance of early collaborating in the filmmaking process on the use of color versus attempting to fixing color in post production (if at all in small budget films). It’s a team sport and it starts early if you want to really stretch your budget and maximize your creative efforts.