Colour Grading Exercise:

Above are 2 examples of various colour grading trials from our documentary film “Black Cat”. The original colouring of the  still shot can be seen in the image in the top right corner. The changes made in the remaining three stills in each collage are outlined below:

Photo Album –

• colouring was changed to black and white in order to follow consistency of other shots used throughout the film
• the contrast and brightness was adjusted in order to enhance certain aspects of the objects featured within the frame
• played around with highlights in attempt to achieve more detail in the pictures featured in the photo album

Interview –

• contrast and brightness was again adjusted in order to enhance the colouring of many aspects within the frame
• as the shot comes across quite yellow in one of the images the colouring has been played around with in that the reds were turned down and the blues were turned up in order to achieve sharper whites
• sharpness of the shot was adjusted to see what effect it had on the overall look of the image

Reflecting on Film/TV 2:

This semester the course was definitely not quite what I had expected. In comparison to film/tv 1 I felt as though there was a lot more freedom and it was exciting to be able to collect the content of our film throughout the course of the semester as opposed to one sigular day of stressful shooting. As a result fo this I feel that the films that we have produced have been subjected to a lot more change than could have ever been anticipated as there was always oppertunity to collect more footage in order to manipualte the direction that the film was taking. Sometimes through this process of bringing together older and newer footage together the film would begin to adopt a completely unexpected form but this wasn’t necessiry thing as often we were pleasently surprised.

I feel like overall what I gained most from this semester is a taste for the many different forms that documentary film making could adopt and the countless ways of going about it. The course has also exposed me to the necessity of having flexibility and an open mind as you never know the effect of what different creative decisions or experimantal ideas can have.