Colourist, Production Resource

Role overview

This position is focused on shaping the look of television, digital, and long-form content through colour correction, colour grading, and visual enhancement. You will partner with producers, directors, cinematographers, editors, and post-production specialists to deliver the intended creative style while keeping every output technically compliant and visually consistent.

Core responsibilities

• Grade colour for drama, entertainment, promotional, corporate, and digital productions.
• Work with production and post-production teams to define and deliver the visual tone of each project.
• Make sure all graded outputs align with broadcast, streaming, and platform-specific technical requirements.
• Help improve colour workflow processes and encourage the use of recognised industry practices.

Pre-grading preparation

• Set up grading suites, software tools, and project configurations before work begins.
• Review offline edits, creative notes, references, and project briefs.
• Evaluate workflow needs, colour spaces, and final delivery specifications.
• Coordinate with producers, directors, cinematographers, editors, and post supervisors to ensure creative alignment.

Colour correction and grading

• Carry out colour correction and creative grading with professional-grade colour tools.
• Create visual treatments that strengthen storytelling and support the creative brief.
• Maintain consistency in colour, exposure, contrast, and overall image quality across the production.
• Fix image-related issues and enhance footage while staying within technical constraints.

Quality control and delivery

• Perform final visual checks on graded content before it is delivered.
• Confirm that the finished output meets the required quality and technical benchmarks.
• Assist with diagnosing and resolving grading-related technical problems.

Collaboration and continuous improvement

• Partner with editors, online artists, audio post teams, and engineering teams to keep projects moving efficiently.
• Update stakeholders on project status, progress, and potential risks.
• Share ideas that can improve workflow efficiency, visual quality, and finishing standards.

Qualifications

• A diploma or degree in media, film, digital arts, broadcast production, or a similar field is preferred.
• Certification in colour grading software such as DaVinci Resolve will be an advantage.
• Strong grasp of colour theory, cinematography, and visual storytelling.
• Hands-on experience in colour grading for broadcast, film, digital, or commercial work.
• A portfolio that clearly shows colour grading and visual finishing capability.
• Prior collaboration with directors, cinematographers, editors, and post-production teams.
• Working knowledge of SDR, HDR, Rec.709, colour spaces, and broadcast delivery standards.
• Understanding of post-production workflows, file-based media handling, and finishing processes.
• Exposure to VFX, online finishing, and digital delivery pipelines is beneficial.
• Video editing knowledge is an added advantage.

Additional information

Location: Singapore, Singapore.