Colour-Grading, Superb results, Low Budgets
too easy.
My current bunch of students at the
International Film School Sydney are currently in the throws of shooting and hurtling towards post. Considering that this means we have 50 short films on the go over a 10 week period with up to 7 being shot concurrently at any given time, there's a huge potential for chaos! But its the good kind of chaos - the rampantly creative and industrious kind.
What is complicating that process however is that many of the young filmmakers will be engaging for the first time with more complex and detailed post-production processes - visual effects, motion graphics, compositing and colour grading. Some of them are chomping at the bit to get their hands dirty with tools like Magic Bullet (hich is our chosen and preferred colour-grading system) whilst others might be terrified by the thought of all those buttons and mouse clicks.
To help put it all into perspective PVC has an excellent article that walks through the process of a very low-budget music video being colour graded with Magic Bullet. The article has before and after video clips to watch and lots of images to compare.The article is called '
Its not the budget, it's where you put the camera!' and have made it compulsory reading for all students and by proxy anyone looking to expand their low-budget indie horizons.
When you're done you also need to check out this colour-grading comparison image gallery called
One Image-Many Visions, that shows the same photo under more than 30 different colour styles and looks. Its a perfect way to see the power of colour to shape the emotion and tone of an image
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Posted at 12:00AM Jun 25, 2008
by Mike Jones in video |
