Michael Chiado


I’m Mike Chiado, I work, I’m the Vice President of Engineering for Company3. And Company3 specializes in providing, uh, creative looks for, uh, Meteor projects.
Right now the trend in, um, consumer technology seems to be brighter is better, and it just wrecks havoc with the work we’re doing, especially the dark saturated work. It just looks totally different on a consumer set than it was intended to look.

The black levels are terribly important, because so much of the, um, work that I’ve seen lately, the majority of the films that we’ve worked on are, are very dark. Sweeney Todd is an example, where it’s, has a very unusual color palette and a lot of it’s very dark.

We have to worry about how it’s gonna look at home. Because right now things just seem to be falling apart in the consumer market. It used to be that, you know, everybody had a glass CRT and we were pretty confident what it was gonna look like at home. But with CRTs, um, being in the past now and going to alternate, uh, display technologies, there’s just, we’re just so uncertain on how it’s gonna look. When we, um, had to approve the compression for, um, Pirates 3, um, a number of consumer sets were brought in, just so the Director, Gore Verbinski, could get an idea of the range of how it was gonna look at home, and make sure that that was gonna hold up and have his vision throughout all those different displays, because they were all so dramatically different.