Color Grading

     When I was first coming up with this Idea, I knew that I wanted the project to be very cinematic. There was a major step that needed to be taken to make a project cinematic. Color Grading, now I had very limited experience with color grading. I wanted this to have a similar colors and lighting to the 2023 movie "The Color Purple". There are many very visually pleasing shots with warm colors and sunny shadows. I wanted to replicate this in my own project but I did not know how to just yet. I practiced by color correcting some still shots on practice websites such as Lift Gamma gain. Then I was finally confidant to start with grading my footage. 

             This is the shot I started out with.

I learned from my research that many historical cinematic films have this warm color scheme and I wanted to implement it into my story. I started off with finding other films with warm color grading such as "The Color Purple". I think I created a good result that matches other historical movies and looks pretty good.                                                                 

         

           This is the Shot that I color graded

 I selected these setting for the mid tones, shadows and highlights to give it that warm feeling. (The setting are at the bottom of the blog post) I actually added some warmth and yellow tint to the shot as well. These setting transformed my shots from ammeter looking to more advanced and cinematic.