Nicolas Diaz.
The image, from set to lab.
I work alongside directors and cinematographers across the whole image chain: workflow, color consistency and dailies security, for commercials, features and series.
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- 270+ credited shoots
- 14 years on set
- 21 features & series
- Paris & anywhere else
What I actually do
Serving a vision
Every project is born as an image that only the director and the cinematographer can glimpse. My job: make it appear on the monitors, setting after setting, shot after shot, until everyone on set sees exactly what the two of them see.
Zero errors on the images
No scene should ever be reshot because of the images: that is the deal. Dailies checked and secured from the first take, a chain held from prep to the lab, and the on-set decisions handed over intact to the colorist.
The link along the image chain
Camera, production, post, the lab: along the image chain, the DIT is the link. Information flows, decisions come faster, and post-production starts one step ahead.
The set came first
2011, the set of a feature film. I am the video assistant, and I have picked up a habit that appears on no job description: pulling the freshly shot footage and cutting it right there. One day, the director stops behind my screen to check a match cut that has been nagging him. He goes back to shooting, reassured. The next day, he comes back. Then every day.
That little ritual had a name, one you barely heard on French sets: DIT. And it was his cinematographer who later set me on that path. The road then went through data management on The Transporter 4, Valerian and Anna, and on to DIT work on Lupin, Asterix, The Substance, Omar la fraise, Winter in Sokcho and French Lover. Commercials are my day-to-day; I do about one feature a year, so I try to choose well. And from 2015 to 2017, I chaired the ADIT, the French DIT Association.
Shoots for these brands
- Chanel
- Hermès
- Louis Vuitton
- Dior
- Cartier
- Tiffany & Co.
- Bulgari
- Guerlain
- Saint Laurent
- Balenciaga
- Prada
- Tom Ford
- Boucheron
- Chaumet
- Messika
- Piaget
- Audemars Piguet
- Swarovski
- Montblanc
- Longines
- Lancôme
- L’Oréal
- Estée Lauder
- Clarins
- Shiseido
- Caudalie
- Jean Paul Gaultier
- Loewe
- Dolce & Gabbana
- Armani
- Louboutin
- Chloé
- Maje
- Issey Miyake
- Ralph Lauren
- Tommy Hilfiger
- Nike
- Adidas
- Renault
- Peugeot
- Air France
- American Express
- Samsung
- Netflix