Here a beautifully graded episode in the colour suite was rendered muddy and blocky by people watching the episode on regular TVs. An example of where a colour grade was potentially pushed too far was the Game of Thrones episode The Long Night (opens in new tab). Colour grading will involve the director sitting in a dark room with the colour grader, this can be a standalone post (or the editor on smaller productions) making changes to affect the mood of the entire film.Ĭolour grading in cinema (and TV) can be controversial especially as cinemas and TV look to formats such as HDR. Workflows are being developed like the ACES (opens in new tab) (Academy Color Encoding System) to ensure colour accuracy across as many different input formats as possible, which will hopefully make colour work less about correction and more about colour grading.īecause colour grading is primarily an emotional polish on a film, many feature films leave the colour grade to the very end of the production process. If the production pipeline has ensured that they have been shooting in the most flexible way possible (for example RAW recording or shooting in LOG format), this means that decisions can be made regarding colour grading all the way through to the final edit.ĬG artists are acutely aware of the need to accommodate colour grading workflows, so use file formats such as EXRs, which store a wide range of colour data.
Naturally, colour grading is heavily influenced by decisions made on set by the director of photography (DOP) and the director. In cinema, colour grading is a creative choice taken by a creative individual or team on how best to represent the story being told by the use of colour. Want to improve your photography? See our post on how to boost your photography skills.
This will ensure the maximum amount of flexibility in both colour processes. Render CG using a file type that can support as high a bit depth as the equipment can handle. If a camera has a neutral colour or flat profile, or a log profile use that. The one essential thing is making sure that any colour choice, whether for colour correction or grading, is made using non-destructive methods. For example 'crushing' the blacks of an image to make it feel contemporary, or taking the matched shots from a camera and tracking and lightening main characters face so that they stand out. Colour correction is also applicable to making footage from different cameras 'match' so that when the colour grader is applied, a consistent look can be achieved throughout a scene.Ĭolour grading is adjusting the image in specific ways to create a stylistic effect.
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