Melbourne / Remote · For studios, producers & agencies
Colour, finishing and delivery for work that has to land.
Matteo Curcio is a Melbourne-based online editor, colourist, finishing artist, and workflow consultant for commercial, branded, and agency post-production.
Selected Work
Commercial colour, finishing and motion.
Selected clients
Colour Grading
Look development, colour management, shot matching, and delivery-aware grading for commercial and branded post-production.
Workflow & Infrastructure
Process design, the hardware and software I build to fix specific problems, and the security thinking underneath both.
Coaching
From tutoring Adobe at RMIT to one-on-one coaching: Resolve and production workflows taught from real constraints, not tutorial theatre.
Music
Original composition, sync, and score for film, television, and advertising as one half of Grammy-nominated Musetta.
The two halves of the job.
Most of a grade is judgement calls. Where the eye goes first. Whether skin reads as a person or a product. Whether the brand's blue survives contact with the actual footage. None of that comes out of a preset. I've been making those calls since I was grading TV ads in Florence, which is long enough to have opinions and to know when to let go of them. The focused version of that work is colour grading.
The other half is less interesting to talk about and just as likely to sink a job. A look that works in the suite is only useful if it survives being re-cut, re-framed and re-versioned across every deliverable the campaign ships. I care about the pipeline as much as the picture, mostly from having been on the wrong end of one held together with guesswork. That side is online editing and finishing.
Get both right and the work holds up through revisions, under pressure, and after everyone has moved on to the next thing.
Start Here
Post-house quality, without the post house.
Producers, agencies, and studios come to me when the work still has to be excellent and they'd rather keep things close than route everything through a bigger machine.