Colour Grading
Grading — color grading, as most briefs spell it — is two jobs that get one name. The first is invisible: making forty shots from three cameras across two days look like one afternoon. The second is the look — and it only works once the first is done.
Everything here is graded as part of the same pipeline it was cut in, which is why a note in the grade can go back to the edit instead of being worked around.
A colourist in Riyadh
Ahmed Gonaim is a colourist and filmmaker in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Colour Grading for government bodies, brands, production agencies and studios across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
Also called colorist, color grading or grading and finishing.
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- Colour Grading
- BASED
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- EXPERIENCE
- 15+ years
- LANGUAGES
- Arabic · English
- STUDIO
- Direct Group · Riyadh
- Shot matching across cameras, days and locations
- Look development, built from the film rather than a preset
- Skin tones — the thing an audience notices without knowing why
- Broadcast-legal and cinema delivery
- HDR and SDR masters from one grade
Commercial · brand film · event film · music video · documentary
Can you grade a film somebody else edited?
Yes. A locked cut and the original camera files are all a colorist needs, and it is a common way to work in Saudi Arabia where the shoot and the finish often sit in different companies.
Do you match to a reference or a brand look?
Both are normal. A brand with an existing film library usually needs the new piece to sit next to it, which is a matching job before it is a creative one.
What about broadcast delivery specs?
Masters are delivered legal for broadcast, and separately for cinema and online where those are different — they usually are.