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How to Improve Your Films with Color Grading

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About How to Improve Your Films with Color Grading

Introduction

The Fundamentals of Color

Working with Nodes

Contrast, Temperature and Saturation

Simple Filmic Effects

Advanced Filmic Effects

Solving Common Problems

Tips for Grading Cheap Footage

Creative Look: Commercial

Creative Look: Blockbuster

Wrapping Up

What You Will Learn?

  • Thoughtful color grading can turn average footage into something truly organic that enhances the tone and mood of a film. .
  • Digital cameras are excellent tools, but their footage does require some processing before it’s ready to share online or display onto the big screen.  .
  • In this 30-minute step-by-step class, you’ll learn how to color grade footage from any camera for a professional and stylized look. .
  • Whether you’re making narrative films, YouTube videos or working as a filmmaker-for-hire, getting the colors right is a crucial step towards making the best impression..
  • The key lessons in this class include: .
  • Simon Cade has been honing his grading technique for over a decade while working on short films and non-fiction content. He has studied the qualities of celluloid film and painstakingly matched digital shots to those from classic movies as well as his own Super 8 and 16mm footage..
  • By the end of this course, you’ll have the creative and practical tools to bring different moods and styles out of your footage. Let's employ the beauty of film aesthetic with the flexibility of the digital process!.