The Feel of Film Masterclass bridges the gap between film’s emotional allure and the scientific precision required to recreate it digitally. Led by Sam Wiles — former Senior Color Engineer at FilmConvert and current TV Drama & Documentary Colorist at Dock10 — this course takes students deep into the art and science of building authentic film emulation using native tools inside DaVinci Resolve.
 
What's Included
 
Full session playback. Lifetime access to the complete recorded masterclass.
 
The free prelude. The introductory session, to watch before you begin.
 
The film reel and its digital match — 60.51 GB. The reference the entire class is built on. A 16 mm reel shot on an Arriflex 16SR with Optar Illumina S16 T1.3 lenses on Kodak Vision3 7219 colour negative, developed and scanned at Cinelab Romania, delivered as a continuous 4K ProRes XQ transfer. Alongside it, the same scene on a Blackmagic 6K in BRAW — six clips, identical lighting, identical setup. You grade the digital toward the film sitting right next to it, which means you can verify your emulation rather than guess at it.
 
Practice footage. RED R3D and Blackmagic RAW camera originals across a range of lighting conditions, including low-key candlelit interiors — the hardest case there is for halation and skin tone.
 
Three finished power grades. FoF 16, FoF 35 and FoF Print — the 16 mm, 35 mm and print emulation trees, delivered as Resolve stills. Drop them into your gallery and apply to a clip to load the complete node structure, built the way it was built in class: linearization, the three emulsion layers, halation, then print. They are there to check your own build against, not to shortcut past it.
 
For more information: https://www.tacresolvetraining.com/feel-of-film-masterclass