I love color grading. Am I the best at it? NO. But to me it's one of the few things about editing that I actually enjoy doing. My original color grading method was just playing around with the basic settings provided by lumetri color on Adobe Premiere Pro. But in the last few months I've learned so much from the people around me. Special shoutout to my close friends Emma and Zach for teaching me so much about the technicalities behind color grading.
Me and Emma (one of my biggest role models)
Okay, now on to the actual color grading. Color grading is a crucial part of our film opening postproduction as we filmed most of it during dusk-nightfall when lightning changes rapidly. This caused some of our footage to look significantly different than other clips. Additionally, our film opening has scenes that take place both inside and outside, and we wanted to still keep a cohesive look throughout it all.
To achieve all of this we utilized many different color grading tools. Firstly, we used the white balance tool to effectively white balance our footage, since much of it came out a bit blue/purple. We also played around with tint and saturation to get the stylized look we wanted. Additionally, we upped the warmth as some shots were very gray.
To get a cohesive brightness we manually went through every shot and fixed the exposure and contrast to match the rest. I loved how our finished color graded result turned out. Here is another example of a before and after.
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