Analysis 5

As per lecture –  in a sequence you’ve called ‘colour’ you will have clips that are indicative of a particular colour or lighting state. To the right of that clip you will have that same clip repeated 2 or more times with different colour grades on it.

Take screen grabs of each clip then upload to your blog the series of stills that show us ‘before and afters’ of your colour grading. Provide a few different examples of at least two different clips – each with a description of what you did to the clip and why.

It’s been a long weekend. My team and I have been spending the entire weekend getting our structure and editing done. This week we started on colour grading. Here are some examples that we’ve screen captured from snippets of our film. We used two cameras for our film, the EX3 and a Canon Mark II, the clips that came out from the EX3 came out rather dull while those that were from the Canon Mark II were vibrant.

1. Adjusted the colour curves of the images and the brightness, so as to not let the subject look too “orange” or “yellow in the picture.
Before
After
1. The sun was overbearing when we filmed this. Adjusted the contrast and brightness and changed the colour balance to make it look more vibrant. We tried adding in filters as well.
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After
Subject here looks as if his blending into the surroundings. We wanted to make him stand out even more – Changed the colour balance and brightness. ( I’m still deciding which one looks better)
Before After
For a more cinematic effect, we played around with the colour balance – more to blue and green hues, rather than red and yellow.
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After

“In 200 words or less please outline your goals, desires – what you want to get out of this semester. You will review this later in the course. You may rethink this dramatically – this is a good thing.”

You were asked this at the beginning of the semester. Now, could you review constructively what you got from this semester –  has the course lived up to your expectations, delivered what you expected, maybe even surpassed it?

My goal was to be able to improve my production skills like handling how to work the EX3, and sound, also to be able to improve my director’s skills.
From what I got out during the entire semester, I’ve managed to surpassed all my goals.
Yayy. However, I found out that working with friends can be a good thing and a bad thing.
Whenever we’re working with friends, there is a tendency to dance around saying what and upfront with each other all the time.

I think at the end of the day, honesty is the best policy, offering constructive criticism and having a conversation about what all of us find inspiring about the task in hand is imperative. Whether friend or not, there’s always a line between friends and assignments.