The Story is the Signal

Death on Scenic Drive (2017)
Year: 2017
Role: DOP & Colourist
Dir: Gabriel Carrer
Prod: Gabriel Carrer
A young woman becomes death itself, unleashing a violent storm against Dallas Henson and his family.
Queen of Spades (2021)
Year: 2021
Role: DOP & Colourist
Dir: Patrick White
Prod: Brendan McNeill
An ancient ritual summons the Queen of Spades, an ominous entity.
Do Not Disturb (2022)
Year: 2022
Role: DOP
Dir: John Ainslie
Prod: Rechna Varma
Best Cinematography, New York City Horror Film Festival 2022
A couple's Miami honeymoon curdles into body horror when peyote awakens a hunger for human flesh.

Smak is a place
to make films

The director’s intention
survives the pipeline.

Production through to delivery.

Scott McIntyre, CSI

DOP and Senior Colourist. Toronto.

Three features. Two CSC Award nominations.

Full Member, Colorist Society International.

A studio,
not a factory

Primetime post
keeps the system running.

Indie features are the mission.
Chosen, not assigned.

Two disciplines.
Both ends of the pipeline.

One goal.
That’s Smak Studios.

Painting with Light.
Grounded by Post.

What gets solved with light.

What gets solved faster in post.

Knowing the difference saves takes, and protects performances.

This instinct only exists when you have been on both sides.

Light shapes the feeling

Horror lives in what you don’t see.

Light subtracted, then reintroduced to create tension or fear.

Even before the grade, the story should be baked into the footage.

It is not just exposed. It is telling you something.

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Colour through architecture

The image arrives with intention. The grade honours it.

Scene-referred from the start.

Everything after that is creative intent.

Every project has its own destination

A process directed by the story and the feeling.

That is not a preset. That is not a LUT.

It is discovering what each project actually holds.

Shaped. Not corrected

Colour palette. Contrast. Tone.

All decisions in service of what the filmmaker built.

The grade reveals what is already in the image. It does not impose a look.

Horror. Drama. Comedy.
Narrative Indie Filmmaking.

If you’re building something, the conversation starts here.

New Message

Copying “Motorcycle Bandit Train Heist” to “SMAK Remote Suite”

0.00 GB of 666 GB – About 15 seconds

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