Friday 29 April 2016
Now that i have my picture lock, i have started to go through and colour correct then grade each clip.
My work flow for this is, first I’m going to correct then grade my interview, then once i have my look for the interview, i will then move onto the main bulk of the project, colour correcting the image, balancing it out so that the exposure and colour is correctly exposed for each scene, then applying a grade through the whole portrait to get the desired look that i want.
The tools that i’m going to be using to carry out my colour correction and grade is firstly lumetri colour tool inside of adobe premiere, then once i’ve done that, i may also use Magic Bullet looks, and also Film convert, plugging to grade the shot a bit more with the specialist tools inside of those plugging’s.
0 - Lumetri scopes for reading not exposed picture
So that i was able to tell how each clip is exposed and how much colour is within the scene, and how saturated it is, i relied upon the lumetri scopes to give me an accurate colour and exposure reading, as relying upon your eyes can sometimes be unreliable, due to them not showing you the real true exposure and colour of the scene if your monitor is not calibrated decent enough.
Looking at the waveform luma scope we can see that the interview footage is clipping in the white area at the top of the scope at 100 IRE, and the mid tone which is Oli’s face are between the high end of 40 - 80 IRE, creating very little contrast, and the blacks; even though at 10 ire, are pushing more towards the grey area and are lacking in contrast, making them look washed out.
So to correct this footage i first set my basic correction, getting my exposure levels correct, but slightly making the footage blue, as I’m looking to bring back the skin tones by turning up the saturation in the creative panel towards the end of the grade
1 - Basic correction
Then using the 3 way colour corrector, i moved the mid tones a little to the blue, the shadows slightly towards the reds and the highlights slightly towards the reds, turning up the exposure a little bit on the highlight to bring the reds up, and also increasing the exposure very slightly on the mid tones to bring up the blues a little, increasing the contrast shown in the reds on the RGB parade.
2 - 3 way colour wheel
Then using the curves and hue saturation curve, i used this to balance the RGB parade, bringing the blue’s highlight back down to 95 ire, but further increasing the contrast in the blues and to increase the red back to 96 IRE so that all the highlights are clipping around the same reading.
3 - RGB curve and hue for skin
Then after applying a some saturation to bring back the skin tone a bit more, i cropped up my image and applied a vignette effect around the edge of the frame to focus the attention on Oli even more, and try lessen the highlights of the background, due to the overexposed composition from the sun beaming through the curtains.
Because some of the shots that i filmed at night had too much noise in them, i used the remove noise plugging to remove the noise and smoothen out the footage
Because this jogging shot was over exposed, i duplicated the layer and darkened the overall image, but this also made Oli darker as well, so i created a layer mask around Oli and the mask track Oli whilst he was jogging, which enabled me to turn up the shadows around Oli and increase the brightness of him.
