Post-Production: Colour Grading

Colour grading our film opening 

After we had letterboxed our sequence, we needed to colour grade it. When doing this our aim was to make sure that all of the shots had a similar level of colour/light. A lot of our shots were over exposed, so we had to reduce the brightness of the shot. As well as this we had to adjust the colour levels in some shots, reducing or increasing the warmth when shots looked to warm (red) or cold (blue). 

Our performance shots were particularly hard to colour grade as we used coloured lighting when filming, so it was hard to tell when a shot had too much red/blue etc. as the colours were constantly changing. To combat this, we tried to ignore the colours more (unless the shot was obviously very strongly one colour) and just increase and decrease the brightness as necessary. The narrative shot were slightly easier to colour grade; all we had to do was to make sure that we made the same/similar adjustment to each shot so they fit together nicely.