Final Project: Color Grade “The Drop”
Color grade The Drop using Lumetri Color.
Final Project Details: Color and Light
I’m really pleased with how this project turned out. Even without any color grading or correction done, the footage looks really good. We can make it look even better, though.
Collaborative Project: The Drop
Film a project together that shows off various lighting techniques.
Noob Cinematography Mistakes
Courtesy of the fine folks at Aputure, here are five common mistakes made by beginning cinematographers.
Color Lesson 4: Odds and Ends
You should now have a good overview of the tools available to you in Premiere Pro and the Lumetri Color panel. Before we wrap up the color grading section of the course, there are a…
Recreating Looks from the 2018 Oscar Nominees
Want your film to look like it deserves an Oscar? In this tutorial, Jordy from Cinecom recreates shots from Darkest Hour, The Shape of Water, Blade Runner 2049, and Dunkirk. What I love about this video is that it goes…
Teal & Orange All Day
Pushing your color grade towards the complementary colors teal and orange is very popular right now – either with the shadows going teal and the highlights going orange or with the shadows and highlights going teal…
Shaping Light with The Slanted Lens
Need a quick refresher on some of the tools for shaping light? The always-enthusiastic Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens has a great video on how to use flags, silks, and nets to manipulate…
Color Lesson 3: Log and LUTs
We talked in an earlier lesson about the pros and cons of filming with a “log” recording mode – a picture profile that decreases saturation and contrast to provide flexibility in post-production. I mentioned then…
Color Lesson 2: Creative Grading
With your footage corrected, you can move on to the aesthetic aspect of the color process: grading. Let’s work our way through the rest of the Lumetri panel to see what we can do.
Color Lesson 1: Basic Correction
All color film and video is made up of the combination of three colors: red, green, and blue. Color correction and grading is the act of altering the relationship between those three colors. Until fairly…
CineFix’s Top Ten Cinematographers
Who’s the greatest cinematographer of all time? While I think there are some names missing from this particular list (Emmanuel Lubezki, Christopher Doyle), it’s a great overview of some of the best in the business.…
Collaborative Project Script Breakdown
Here’s the revised script for the collaborative project, with additional info about location, shoot date, actors, and the person in charge of each sequence.
Is Aperture Affected by Crop Factor?
There is some debate in the filmmaking community – even among professionals – as to whether sensor-size crop factor should be applied to aperture. As you may recall, the size of a camera’s sensor affects…
Mid-Semester Project Script
Exterior, night – a foggy parking lot.
Lighting Stop-Motion
Ever wonder how lighting is done on a miniature scale for stop-motion animation? Check out this video from Cooke Optics.
Project 3: Genre Looks
Emulate different film styles using lighting.
Mid-Semester Project Details: Light It Up
Over the next two weeks, we’re going to be working on our mid-semester project. Filmmaking is a collaborative process, so rather than assigning everyone an individual project, we’re going to work on this project as…
Lighting Lesson 7: Odds and Ends
Before we break for the mid-semester recess and move on to the wonderful world of color grading, there are a few last tips and techniques I’d like to discuss.
One Room, Three Looks
Here’s an informative video from Cinematography Database in which one room is lit for three different looks – sunset, day, and night.