For the first clip I colour graded, I only altered the original footage subtly to explore how little I could change each version so that it would be noticeable when compared side by side, but still appear to look natural.

Because of the way the lighting the space was set up, Rosie is lit quite well in this shot, while the background of Building 80 appears to be almost over exposed. Because of this, there was only so much you could change before you either started to lose the background, or the image began to look unnatural.

I changed very little with this first grade, as I was hesitant to change too much and have it look unnatural. However the small changes are clear when looked at next to the original footage.

I wanted to make Rosie’s red jacket “pop” in this shot, as I really like how it standouts out against the background. It does however make her hair look quite different compared to the other three versions.

Again, adding just a little yellow makes the image look natural, but it makes it like the shot feel far warmer.

This shot was a little tricky to grade, as there is a lot of camera movement. It moves from the bright, white, coffee sign light to Rosie’s face, and all of the elements of shot needed to look a natural colour.

Before I altered in the image at all, the shot already had a slightly cool look to it.

Although the yellow grade doesn’t look strange, it looks quite different to the original image as it is much warmer than the cooler, unedited shot.

This blue grade looks a lot cooler than the previous shot because of the blue that was already in the shot. I think it makes the shot look really dramatic which I quite like, particular with the expression on Rosie’s face here.

I really like the warm feel in this grade. It gives everything the frame a kind of rusty vibe, which I think works well for both Rosie’s face and the background.

I decided to also grade a shot that we got while test shooting on location, as I wanted to test how this same technique would look when the original image was filmed in the evening and the lighting was dramatically different.

Because of the time we were shooting at, there was already them some really interesting colours. The sky was already quite purple which I liked, and didn’t want to change too much.

For the cooler, blue grade, I just tried to bring out this purple colour in the sky and made it look like it was a little it later in the evening by emphasising the shadows. It did however meaning losing some of the light on the bowling green, which if it had been shot later would appear to be stronger rather than weaker.

I like how much of the bowling green is in this shot, and I wanted to play around with how to make it look like a darker green. In doing so, the sky looks a little less purple, and I haven’t worked a way yet to do both in one grade. I prefer how the houses on the street look closer to their natural cream colour in this grade to the purplish colour the have in the green grade.

I was hoping that added was yellow to the grade might emphasis the street lights, which it did a little, but still doesn’t stand out heaps. I’d really like to try to get some shots of, if not street lights, warm yellow lights inside the bowls club, and have another go at colour grading a shot with lighting that’s different again.