EDITING TECHNIQUES

 I don't know if I've mentioned this before but when we did our group meetings Ana got a really good suggestion. As you may know, we plan on playing with color in a way that as the movie begins everything is bright and colorful but as the movie progresses and as the mood changes the color will lower and it would end in almost black and white. Now, the student that made the suggestion said that we could play with the saturation of the footage to make that happen. Naturally, I had to research how to do this editing technique that takes place post-production. 

So what is color grading? color grading is when you stylize the color scheme of the footage. In addition, this also happens after color corrections and the purpose of this technique is to emphasize the visual tone and to make it look a little more cinematic. But then the question becomes how do you make this color grading happen? Well, I found an article that had a couple of tips to do so and here they are: 

The first thing you should do is look at the genre of your film because certain genres have developed a certain color wheel that could be a good starting point. The second step is to think about the mood you are going for, and the emotions you want to evoke and use color to support it. The third step is to use the color wheel to show contrast, tranquility, or claustrophobia. There are the tips I found useful when it is time to edit and get this done. 

But that is not everything, I also found an article with a video that tells you how color grading works and what your footage looks like once you get the color grading. 

The video is really useful because it tells you what to do and what it would look like after you accomplish the color grading. it explains in detail everything you need to know about color grading and all the techniques that they use such as log, raw, creative LUTs, etc. But that is not all about the article that shows you this video, the article also talks about the difference between color correction and color grading and they show you the different of what it looks like. 

We see that the first thing that takes place is the color correction, and this is to correct the color of your footage which will lead you to color grading that will change the colors of the footage for aesthetic reasons. But don't think this ends here because I found even more useful information about this editing technique in a new article. The article talks about the 5 steps that you need to take to make color grading happen. 

But then the cool thing about this article is that it shows you a video of the same footage but with different color grading and how the color grading is used to create an entirely different mood making it seem like it is coming from an entirely different movie. This the reason we want to use this technique because as you know the movie is about struggling in a sport which is why we want to lower the saturation as it goes that way the audience sees that the mood is changing and as the stages of life happen and the stages of the girl growing up in the sport happen the tone and mood kinda lower because she is struggling and we thought that using this technique to show that important part of the film was appropriate. 

But nonetheless, we still have so much work to do, hopefully, we can start filming this week and get some things going!!

ARTICLES: 

https://vimeo.com/blog/post/color-grading-vs-color-correction-explained/#:~:text=Color%20grading%20is%20the%20process%20of%20editing%20film%20or%20video,is%20meant%20to%20see%20it.

https://nofilmschool.com/color-grading-guide-2022