After the first rough cut viewing with Simon i was tasked with the job to colour grade our footage, as the majority of it was fairly yellow and the white balance being totally off in some scenes.
I've done some exploration into the world of colour grading, but i feel i've only touched the tip of the iceberg in terms of knowledge and experience. Colour grading is a whole skillset on its own and for that reason it needs to be approached with great attention and care.
(Colour wheel)
This is how the majority of our first half footage looks like, this slightly off yellow colour, especially on the skin tones. This needed resolving quickly as it definitely wasn't the desired effect we were looking to have on our characters since it does not convey the overall tone & aesthetic we were wishing to go for.
Then i began to colour correct it, which took me quite sometime to get it right, but after deep research & a few Youtube tutorials i had began to understand how to remove the yellow-iness and fix the problem. I pulled the colour wheel from central position, towards the opposite colour of yellow/orange, to blue/teal colours, to balance it out. However you had to be precise & accurate as if you pulled it over too much you'd then get a blue tint on the footage.
Overall i'm not massively satisfied with the colour correcting on the footage and i think i'll be correcting it until the last minute, but its been improved upon from the first viewing. Lighting & using the camera efficiently are key and could save us from this trouble in the first place.
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