Color correcting to get the CHE look

[omar robles]

If anyone has seen Steven Sodenberghs Che shot on RED. You must have noticed how beautiful the images are. Particularly the color tone in it. My question to the people of this forum is can you achieve the look Sodenbergh got with out shooting anamorphic (which he did) And color correcting on Scratch?

With the sources us poor filmakers are limited to.

 

[David Battistella]

With the sources us poor filmakers are limited to.

Being poor does not mean you can not do quality work. There are many very affordable and capable tools, FCP, Color, AE, Premiere Pro, AVID, that have very decent tool sets to emulate what you want to do.

The lack knowledge of how to do it is what makes you poor, not the tools available.

David

 

[omar robles]

what I meant by my posting is. Most of us can't afford to work in a SCRATCH system. So does that restrict us from getting the specific look (in my case the look of the film Che) that we desire.

 

[Tom.Wong]

the thing about the lower end software and the high end software, you can do a lot of the stuff you can do on the high end software and systems in the lower end ones. a lot of things are just more difficult to do, take more time, and work arounds. then there are key features on the top of the line stuff that the lower end stuff can never touch. One of them isn't "being able to achieve a look" that can all be done by how you shoot, what you use, and how skilled your colorist/vfx artist is.

 

[andrewhake]

Like David said. It isn't the tools that allowed them to make Ché look the way it did. It was the eye of the director and the people involved. Try not to concentrate on the tools they used, and more on the work itself. There won't be a "Ché" color grade to dial in, just a lot of detailed viewing of the film. Look at what is being done, take notes, practice achieving the look on your own shots. You won't ever get that exact look, but you will be a step further in knowing what suits your own taste.

Software is more a workflow question than a creative one.

 

[Rick Turners]

There is no tool set advantage to any current grading system.. (with the exception of some tracking features etc)

they all have primaries, layers/secondaries/trackers/shapes/curves etc.

The benefit is in the real time, which is what high end clients want, which is what you pay for in a higher end system.

Basically, Che's look wasn't a filter in the Scratch system.