Colour Grading

Cold Washout
For this clip I used the Colour Balance tool to give the clip a colder look to it by emphasizing the colour blue while reducing the warmer red colour. I also went on the tool Brightness and Contrast to increase the saturation thereby increasing the intensity of the shadows making the clip that more menacing and eerie. With all this there is a clear tonal change to the atmosphere of the original clip since it has a heightened sense tension and bleakness. This is useful to convey a certain tone without really explicitly telling the audience what the clip was about.

Warm Over Saturation
For this one I thought I would experiment with doing the same process as the Cold Wash Out but with a warmer colour and what I ended up with was a strange tone that gave off a very unsettling feeling. It almost attempts to put the audience at ease with the warm colour as well as warn them on an impending danger.

Warm Over Exposure
In this clip I used the tool Fast Colour Corrector to see what a more simplified version to adjust colour gain compares to the more complex ones. As it turns out it allows you to focus on a certain colour using a wheel. This is a very easy way to hone in what colour combination I could use but it is very basic. I had to add the Brightness and Contrast tool just to make the clip a bit more appealing but I can see the use of this tool since it is good for experimenting with colour. The end result was that the clip resembles the sepia tone, giving the impression that it’s either a flashback or an event in the past.

https://drive.google.com/a/student.rmit.edu.au/file/d/0B4iXF6gqByUoOC01Tk5DUG8zbUE/view

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