Summer Break

Two worlds. The locker room and the field. We kept them separate in the grade and let the edit bridge them. Inside: teal shadows, low ceilings, faces through facemasks and dreads. The camera sat low and close. Every portrait runs tight — eyes, visors, tape on hands. We graded skin dark and honest. No fill light correction, no lift on the shadows. If the room was dim, the film is dim. The red jerseys are the only saturated element. They pull your eye through every frame like a thread. Outside: night game. Smoke drifting through stadium lights. Motion blur on contact. We desaturated the field and let the haze do the grading — teal-green atmosphere, silhouettes emerging from fog, helmet reflections catching sodium. The action cuts are fast but the moments between plays run slow. A player standing still in smoke. A coach watching from the sideline. The edit breathes where the game does not.