About

Jamie McVicker is a freelance colourist with over 10 years of experience grading film, television, and commercial media.
Jamie draws on years of practical experience as a cinematographer to produce grades that preserve the authorial intent of his collaborators and place their stories at the centre.
His approach integrates an eye for colour harmony and technical detail with a calm and focused presence in the suite. Best described as heightened naturalism, his style seeks to elevate the naturalistic qualities of colour and light on the negative, creating images that feel both expressive and true-to-life.
Jamie has graded feature length projects, episodic series, documentaries, commercials and branded content for internationally recognised brands, agencies, and artists, with a collaborative spirit adaptable to any brief.
Jamie is based in Sydney, but available for remote work worldwide.

Jamie McVicker is a freelance colourist with over 10 years of experience grading film, television, and commercial media.
Jamie draws on years of practical experience as a cinematographer to produce grades that preserve the authorial intent of his collaborators and place their stories at the centre.
His approach integrates an eye for colour harmony and technical detail with a calm and focused presence in the suite. Best described as heightened naturalism, his style seeks to elevate the naturalistic qualities of colour and light on the negative, creating images that feel both expressive and true-to-life.
Jamie has graded feature length projects, episodic series, documentaries, commercials and branded content for internationally recognised brands, agencies, and artists, with a collaborative spirit adaptable to any brief.
Jamie is based in Sydney, but available for remote work worldwide.

Jamie McVicker is a freelance colourist with over 10 years of experience grading film, television, and commercial media.
Jamie draws on years of practical experience as a cinematographer to produce grades that preserve the authorial intent of his collaborators and place their stories at the centre.
His approach integrates an eye for colour harmony and technical detail with a calm and focused presence in the suite. Best described as heightened naturalism, his style seeks to elevate the naturalistic qualities of colour and light on the negative, creating images that feel both expressive and true-to-life.
Jamie has graded feature length projects, episodic series, documentaries, commercials and branded content for internationally recognised brands, agencies, and artists, with a collaborative spirit adaptable to any brief.
Jamie is based in Sydney, but available for remote work worldwide.
Selected Works
Updated: 19.05.2026
© Jamie McVicker, 2026
Selected Works
Updated: 19.05.2026
2026 Showreel
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After Everything
A clean and heightened look for the final instalment in cinematic trilogy for Australian guitar virtuoso Plini, After Everything.
This dreamlike short explores the artist's connection with the divine through nature in a journey amidst towering gums and the pristine beaches of New South Wales' south coast.

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After Everything
A clean and heightened look for the final instalment in cinematic trilogy for Australian guitar virtuoso Plini, After Everything.
This dreamlike short explores the artist's connection with the divine through nature in a journey amidst towering gums and the pristine beaches of New South Wales' south coast.

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After Everything
A clean and heightened look for the final instalment in cinematic trilogy for Australian guitar virtuoso Plini, After Everything.
This dreamlike short explores the artist's connection with the divine through nature in a journey amidst towering gums and the pristine beaches of New South Wales' south coast.

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Kit Kat: Commuter Camo
A high-key commercial look featuring deep reds for the Kit Kat brand, and hybrid digital-analog effects created in-house, made to measure for a gritty urban campaign.
Primary coverage is clean and sharp, contrasted with Digital-8 camcorder footage played back on a CRT TV and re-scanned, processed and augmented with modern colour tools for bespoke look with analog alchemy.

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Kit Kat: Commuter Camo
A high-key commercial look featuring deep reds for the Kit Kat brand, and hybrid digital-analog effects created in-house, made to measure for a gritty urban campaign.
Primary coverage is clean and sharp, contrasted with Digital-8 camcorder footage played back on a CRT TV and re-scanned, processed and augmented with modern colour tools for bespoke look with analog alchemy.

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Kit Kat: Commuter Camo
A high-key commercial look featuring deep reds for the Kit Kat brand, and hybrid digital-analog effects created in-house, made to measure for a gritty urban campaign.
Primary coverage is clean and sharp, contrasted with Digital-8 camcorder footage played back on a CRT TV and re-scanned, processed and augmented with modern colour tools for bespoke look with analog alchemy.

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Vespertine
An elevated cinematic treatment for a performance-driven music video for Australian instrumental guitarist, Plini.
Literally meaning "things that come out at night", Vespertine features hand-drawn animations of mysterious creatures painted on the walls and features of the interior, graded to glue with the organic lighting and texture of the captured footage.

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Vespertine
An elevated cinematic treatment for a performance-driven music video for Australian instrumental guitarist, Plini.
Literally meaning "things that come out at night", Vespertine features hand-drawn animations of mysterious creatures painted on the walls and features of the interior, graded to glue with the organic lighting and texture of the captured footage.

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Vespertine
An elevated cinematic treatment for a performance-driven music video for Australian instrumental guitarist, Plini.
Literally meaning "things that come out at night", Vespertine features hand-drawn animations of mysterious creatures painted on the walls and features of the interior, graded to glue with the organic lighting and texture of the captured footage.

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65 Whiskey
A variety of futuristic textural looks for a dramatised conceptual short commissioned by Australian defence technology company, Breaker Industries.
65 Whiskey draws on seperate colour philosophies for ground footage, aerials, and drone interface/tech POV sequences, evolving with the operators' unfolding awareness during a daring rescue operation.

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65 Whiskey
A variety of futuristic textural looks for a dramatised conceptual short commissioned by Australian defence technology company, Breaker Industries.
65 Whiskey draws on seperate colour philosophies for ground footage, aerials, and drone interface/tech POV sequences, evolving with the operators' unfolding awareness during a daring rescue operation.

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65 Whiskey
A variety of futuristic textural looks for a dramatised conceptual short commissioned by Australian defence technology company, Breaker Industries.
65 Whiskey draws on seperate colour philosophies for ground footage, aerials, and drone interface/tech POV sequences, evolving with the operators' unfolding awareness during a daring rescue operation.

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An Unnameable Desire
A modern filmic look created for the first instalment in a cinematic trilogy of music videos for Australian instrumental guitarist, Plini.
An Unnameable Desire explores the relationship between humanity and its environment in series of vignettes, which inform the protagonist's quest for connection with a nostalgic and contemplative lens.

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An Unnameable Desire
A modern filmic look created for the first instalment in a cinematic trilogy of music videos for Australian instrumental guitarist, Plini.
An Unnameable Desire explores the relationship between humanity and its environment in series of vignettes, which inform the protagonist's quest for connection with a nostalgic and contemplative lens.

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An Unnameable Desire
A modern filmic look created for the first instalment in a cinematic trilogy of music videos for Australian instrumental guitarist, Plini.
An Unnameable Desire explores the relationship between humanity and its environment in series of vignettes, which inform the protagonist's quest for connection with a nostalgic and contemplative lens.

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Manala
A dark fantasy-influenced colour treatment for the second instalment in a cinematic trilogy created for Australian guitarist Plini.
Organic oranges and greens saturate performance coverage in an enchanted industrial garden temple set, while airy blues and whites paint the artist's solo coverage, and an otherworldly dream sequence that smears light and colour into impressionist visions.

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Manala
A dark fantasy-influenced colour treatment for the second instalment in a cinematic trilogy created for Australian guitarist Plini.
Organic oranges and greens saturate performance coverage in an enchanted industrial garden temple set, while airy blues and whites paint the artist's solo coverage, and an otherworldly dream sequence that smears light and colour into impressionist visions.

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Manala
A dark fantasy-influenced colour treatment for the second instalment in a cinematic trilogy created for Australian guitarist Plini.
Organic oranges and greens saturate performance coverage in an enchanted industrial garden temple set, while airy blues and whites paint the artist's solo coverage, and an otherworldly dream sequence that smears light and colour into impressionist visions.

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Under Southern Skies
A modern textural look for a documentary series inspired by its oceanic subject matter, with gentle blues, teals and greens on a mixture of captured interview, archival and stock footage.
Under Southern Skies was commissioned for inclusion Australian National Maritime Museum's eponymous exhibition, which explores the connection between Maori cultures, European explorers and the Polynesian diaspora in the 18th & 19th centuries around Australia and Aotearoa.
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Brendan Blacklock

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Under Southern Skies
A modern textural look for a documentary series inspired by its oceanic subject matter, with gentle blues, teals and greens on a mixture of captured interview, archival and stock footage.
Under Southern Skies was commissioned for inclusion Australian National Maritime Museum's eponymous exhibition, which explores the connection between Maori cultures, European explorers and the Polynesian diaspora in the 18th & 19th centuries around Australia and Aotearoa.
Director/DOP
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Brendan Blacklock

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Under Southern Skies
A modern textural look for a documentary series inspired by its oceanic subject matter, with gentle blues, teals and greens on a mixture of captured interview, archival and stock footage.
Under Southern Skies was commissioned for inclusion Australian National Maritime Museum's eponymous exhibition, which explores the connection between Maori cultures, European explorers and the Polynesian diaspora in the 18th & 19th centuries around Australia and Aotearoa.
Director/DOP
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Brendan Blacklock

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Cappoocino
A modern cinema look crafted for a playful short film referencing historic and high fantasy film canon in a slapstick comedy of a coffee order gone wrong.
The core look for Zeke Simat's Cappoocino draws on modern high-key cinema, interspersed with ethereal looks for a fever-dream sequence and a tongue-in-cheek homage to the 2001 classic, Gladiator.
Director
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Zeke Simat
DP
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Carina Burke

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Cappoocino
A modern cinema look crafted for a playful short film referencing historic and high fantasy film canon in a slapstick comedy of a coffee order gone wrong.
The core look for Zeke Simat's Cappoocino draws on modern high-key cinema, interspersed with ethereal looks for a fever-dream sequence and a tongue-in-cheek homage to the 2001 classic, Gladiator.
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Zeke Simat
DP
:
Carina Burke

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Cappoocino
A modern cinema look crafted for a playful short film referencing historic and high fantasy film canon in a slapstick comedy of a coffee order gone wrong.
The core look for Zeke Simat's Cappoocino draws on modern high-key cinema, interspersed with ethereal looks for a fever-dream sequence and a tongue-in-cheek homage to the 2001 classic, Gladiator.
Director
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Zeke Simat
DP
:
Carina Burke

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Eyes Like Diamonds
A naturalistic filmic look crafted for a feature documentary about a man's singular search for the mythical Thylacine through Tasmania's rugged wilderness.
The look created for this micro-budget feature draws on tones of Tasmania's wilderness to build an atmosphere of contemplation and mystery on one man's search for the truth.

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Eyes Like Diamonds
A naturalistic filmic look crafted for a feature documentary about a man's singular search for the mythical Thylacine through Tasmania's rugged wilderness.
The look created for this micro-budget feature draws on tones of Tasmania's wilderness to build an atmosphere of contemplation and mystery on one man's search for the truth.

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Eyes Like Diamonds
A naturalistic filmic look crafted for a feature documentary about a man's singular search for the mythical Thylacine through Tasmania's rugged wilderness.
The look created for this micro-budget feature draws on tones of Tasmania's wilderness to build an atmosphere of contemplation and mystery on one man's search for the truth.

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About

Jamie McVicker is a freelance colourist with over 10 years of experience grading film, television, and commercial media.
Jamie draws on years of practical experience as a cinematographer to produce grades that preserve the authorial intent of his collaborators and place their stories at the centre.
His approach integrates an eye for colour harmony and technical detail with a calm and focused presence in the suite. Best described as heightened naturalism, his style seeks to elevate the naturalistic qualities of colour and light on the negative, creating images that feel both expressive and true-to-life.
Jamie has graded feature length projects, episodic series, documentaries, commercials and branded content for internationally recognised brands, agencies, and artists, with a collaborative spirit adaptable to any brief.
Jamie is based in Sydney, but available for remote work worldwide.
Selected Works
Updated: 19.05.2026
© Jamie McVicker, 2026
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