Colorist
Hello, my name is James Knott. Originally from a small town in Massachusetts. My first realistic dream, before playing professional football haha, was to work in Hollywood cutting movie trailers. But I ended up finding my true passion, color grading. Mainly because growing up I was unaware that you could have a career just as a colorist. I have always had a passion for art & painting but never had the gift but with film and finding a way to enhance someone's vision through color and style... that I am extremely talented with. Started off working in the machine room at a post house in Santa Monica. Became an assistant online editor and then an assistant colorist with mainly working on reality Tv for MTV & VH1 shows like The Hills, The City, Run's House & Big Love. After a few years of that I decided to move to freelance and become my own boss and of course, lead colorist. I dug my teeth into everything I could get my hands on. From Indy films like Animal Among Us, Bitter Sweet, The Dust Storm, Plea, Don’t Talk to Strangers and now on Apple - The Roswell Delirium. Documentaries like Thug Rose: Mixed Martial Artist, The Signal Hill Speed Run, Wild Daze (Nature) & Kick Started, 3 Star (basketball) and League of Legends: More Than A Game which is currently on Netflix. Promo work for Discovery Channel, LifeTime, Hallmark, OWN. Commercials for Living Spaces, Sunwest bank. Nike & Jordan clothing. BTS for FX shows like Sons of Anarchy, The Old Man & Mayans MC. BTS for Films like Bad Boys 4, Bullet Train, 65, Escape Room, Thanksgiving and Afraid. I then had the wonderful opportunity to be the lead colorists for the NFLN. Super Bowl Cold Opens, The NFL Draft, NFL Explained, Inspire Change, HOF shows & Roundtables. The HBO’s The Shop crossover episode, City Life, Run Rich Run (for St. Jude’s Hospital) And of course the award winning show NFL 360. Making connections there lead to other great sports projects such as Underrated, Elite 11. PK’s Place for ESPN (hockey show) Top Rank Boxing for ESPN. Red Bull Signature series for surfing & motor bikes. PSA’s for NASCAR. Tennis Channel, The French Open. UCLA gymnastics, LA Galaxy, Golf Channel’s The Grind, Ryder Cup & US Open spots. Currently I am working on big ad campaigns, social media spots, commercials & movie tie ins for the biggest companies & brands in the world. Such as Patron, Cheesecake Factory, North Italia, Food Network, WAYMO (self-driving cars). PlayStation’s God of War campaign starring Ben Stiller, John Travolta & LeBron James. PS5 WNBA, Passion for Play and PS portal device starring Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard. Activision’s Mobile: Warzone. Amazon Prime’s Cross, Rings of Power, 1% Club, Upgrade, Coach Prime, The Idea of You, Cruel Intentions & My Old Ass. Netflix’s Decameron, Fubar, Love is Wine & Brothers Sun. Movie tie-ins for Gladiator 2, A Quiet Place: Day One, Mean Girls (the musical) Transformers One, the Little Mermaid, GOTv3, Scream 6, Quiz Lady and The Marvels.