As I was doing the colour grade for our project I thought it'd be great to get some insight from an actual professional within the industry about colour grading film/TV. We sat down with him and he watched our latest cut of the project to see where we could maybe improve on the edit as well as the colour grade. I knew that any feedback from Nathan would be really helpful and honest, so I made sure to take notes throughout this process.
After he watched it, he spoke quite highly of the project, but also stating that there is a lot that could be done to improve the tone and the narratives speed. Here is a list of things he said to look at -
Look at the chef scene, do some more crazy stuff with it
Look at the skin tones on Sam, he sometimes sinks into the wall and there isn't much depth between them.
There needs to be quicker edits in the bathroom scene, similar to edgar wright style.
The can openings need to be tighter.
The raid scene needs to have more dynamism.
He made quite an interesting suggestion about the raid scene, in that we could make it look as if the soldiers are wearing night vision goggles, by turning the whole GoPro footage green, with a vignette effect around the edges to make it look authentic. Nathan quickly shown us an example and edited a piece of footage for us within minutes and it looked great, however the raid scene happens in the day so it would of logistically made sense. I know that sounds pretty ironic considering our narrative is the most non-logical thing you could think of but as it was shot in the day, you wouldn't actually be able to wear night vision because the vision would be way overexposed since they're made for night time. He made a good point about changing the skin tone of Sam, as he kind of blends into the wall, so i'll look at doing this by masking his face and increasing the saturation on it, this is a trick he taught me.
So then the next day came and I decided to just do some research on my own about masking and how to do it on premiere pro because Nathan did it on DaVinci Resolve which I'd never used and didn't feel particularly comfortable/confident with, so I used this tutorial on how to do it on Sam's face. It was a really good tutorial and made our edit look a lot nicer, particularly the scenes in the dining room with Sam.
Overall this was a really insightful review of not only the edit but the colour grade too, unfortunately Aimee missed the one to one session so she didn't get to see how he would of pieced things together but myself and Will wrote all of this information down to pass on to her. He shown me how to mask the colour grade to moving faces, which then lead to me going off to do my own research on it. He got myself and Will thinking more creatively about the edit/grade that we had done before this point, as he was the fresh eyes that we needed at this point in the process. Maybe it would of been useful to have this tutorial with him a bit earlier, as then I may of used DaVinci Resolve for the colour grade, but it is what it is I suppose.
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