I hadn’t heard of the movie Ink before, though Allison had seen it on Netflix and it was available via streaming. While not the most mind blowing production I’ve seen, Ink is a solid effort despite its budget and its slight lack of polish.
Visually, Ink is literally a city of filters. I’m not sure what the footage looked like before processing, though it seems that it was all done on video, and at times without the best lighting. To compensate, there’s a whole lot of soft focus, high-contrast, color shifted, and otherwise altered footage on screen. On the whole there’s nothing all that awful about its presentation, though it seems more to be a polished amateur job.
Sound, similarly, has its holes. There’s nothing particularly bad, though the mix and ambiance are a bit tossed together, and again it lacks the polish that it easily could have donned.
On the whole, the movie is a somewhat dorky production .. and yet I’m writing about it because despite all its faults, it’s still a solid story which is told in a creative way. Hopefully, those involved have been able to cut their teeth and will be able to take a bigger bite with a more careful touch in the near future. Until then, this is certainly one worth checking out, with the above warnings in mind.