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How I would have colour graded the footage

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Patrick Jennings

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Yes i have the gaul to re-colour grade professionally done footage, but some of the people in this forum are saying that the stills don't look all that filmic. I tend to agree with them. So here is my attempt to make the footage look more filmic.

http://www.box.net/shared/igahnliuyt

If you like it, give me a job. I need a job at the moment. I'm based in Australia, Melbourne but i will move if the money is good :)

I invite others to try their hand at colour grading the footage.
 
Just saturating stuff is not really considered what makes footage look filmic.
 
garageman, there's a little bit more than just saturation going on in these images :) i guess it really depends on the look you're going for. what would you do to make them more filmic?
 
I think they look fine as images on their own, they've been graded well. Making stuff look filmic has more to do with the capture of movement in film and latitude. Grading stuff to look like Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers is not what I would judge as an across the board "film look"
 
The shine on the hand, the blokes face and the gun bring them out more. Your one of the blokes face seems a bit too dark to me.

I haven't seen the film so by editing the images they might be taken out of context. Effectively such colour corrections are changing the time of day the scene takes place. I believe a lot of those were at dusk so those colour corrections although good on still might not work on a moving image. So I think "How I would have colour graded the footage" is a bit too bold.

Nevertheless I like seeing variations of the images, if only as a bit of fun. I think the first is probably the best.
 
I´ts easy to tell there´s more than saturation. There´s an evident color twist as well. Red and green I guess, what else ?. This is a funny game, like the one I play with my wife which we have to tell what lens was used in a certain pict. the other shot.
 
thanks for all the comments.
if any ones interested here are the basic setting i used. i slightly tweaked the whites and the mids for each shot though.

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i've never used colorista. i've never really had the need for a more complex program. i can usually get the exact look i'm after with just FCP.

i might check it out. i've heard nothing but good things about it. do you find it better?
 
i'll be getting color too. but i'm not sure FCP6 will run on my little G4 :(
i have to convert all my HDV footage to 720p DVCPRO HD just for FCP5 to work now
 
Hi Jenningsp

One thing you should watch out for is blowing out the highlights, I think you have taken it a bit too far with the blade, all the detail has been lost. This could be a problem with the colour correction in Final cut (soon to be remedied), you may be better off using AE until Color comes out.

M
 
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