This week I finished post production on fellow masters student Scott Davidson's music video. Scott is a director with a background in documentary and drama and has recently been in talks with a local band to produce a budgeted music video for them. In the interim he directed a no budget promo video on which Ian Forbes was cinematographer and I was editor and colourist. The piece is a documentary realist slice of life in Dundee, something which Scott is in a unique position to capture as he seems to know everybody in this town!
Unfortunately I can't post the video as it has not been released yet but Scott has kindly allowed me to post some before and after screen grabs of my colouring work. I went for a reasonably naturalistic look in keeping with the language of the piece, balancing the colours and adding a little filmic contrast. The video is set over the course of a morning so we paid close attention to the colour palate of specific times of the day, the early morning material has a slightly bluish hue in the shade while allowing direct sunlight to appear golden, the later shots are more balanced, pushing toward a warmer palate as the morning progresses. The last film I which graded 'Meta', was more stylistic, with many scenes featuring teal darks and orangy lights to give a complementary colour contrast. It was an interesting change to go for a clean, natural look in this piece.
A before and after in Apple Color. The scopes show a blue bias to indicate the early morning shade.
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ReplyDeleteNice work Matt, you've really pulled out Ian's strong focus with the colour.
ReplyDeleteThat colour data looks like an MRI scan, you must show me around Apple Colour at some point.