About me
Kieran Highman’s first official work on Doctor Who was providing Additional Colour Restoration on “The Daemons” for the Season 8 Collection blu-ray set, primarily returning the film inserts of episodes 1-3 to the look of their original film and removing the hazy appearance intrinsic to the off-air Betamax recordings from which the colour signal was sourced.
At the same time, he was involved in Rich Tipple's project to create the first complete manual colourisation of a 1960s Doctor Who episode, “Day of Armageddon” (The Daleks' Master Plan: Episode 2). After the long-awaited screening of that project in Los Angeles (at Gallifrey One), we were both hired to form a Colourisation Team by Bad Wolf Ltd just as they were taking up the reins of producing Doctor Who.
Together with Rich, Scott Burditt, and Timothy K Brown, he was a Colourisation Artist on The Daleks in Colour, aired for the show's 60th anniversary night on BBC4. His role encompassed the shot-by-shot grading of footage from each artist as it was completed, to form the project into one aesthetically seamless presentation. He also coloured the 5 publicity stills used to promote the programme, and which appear in various forms on the DVD & BluRay covers.
At Bad Wolf I've also contributed colourised footage to the 60th Anniversary special “The Giggle”, in the form of flashbacks to William Hartnell and Michael Gough from “The Celestial Toymaker”. As well as colourised clips provided to “The Adventure of a Lifetime”, the Official Doctor Who Youtube Channel's video celebrating 60 years of the show, narrated by Paul McGann.
This year's colourisation project is nearing completion but is yet to be revealed.
