CONSTRUCTION: COLOUR CORRECTION

In this blog post i will describe what processes I have performed for the colour correction.

I have had previous editing experience both as a novice film maker as a child using imovie and working last year by myself for my media AS forced me to learn new aspects of Premiere Pro and the many abilities one can achieve with this software alone.

Put simply, the changes i wanted to apply to the music video were:

1. A more vibrant and comical 'look' and 'feel' to the clips.
2. A higher contrast to make the colours stand out more.
3. Get rid of any dull colours or unwanted defects during the clips.

This is the clip's effect menu. The changes
can be applied to the percentages in yellow.

In order to achieve a higher vibrance in the clips, i needed to apply several effects to the clips. This process was relatively simply - drag an effect from the effect menu and drag onto the desired clip where one can customise all aspects of it. An example of this, would be altering the equaliser, brightness and contrast, and adding RGB Curves. Most of the time i felt i had to play around with the settings of the applied effect to see what works better.

The picture to the right shows just how much a clip's 'look' can be changed with the slight alteration of an applied effect - such as equaliser. I found that, with the higher contrast, the colours were more vibrant and less grey and bright.

A further simple effect i found was important to use was RGB Curves. The RGB Curves effect can be seen to the left - the white line represents the master line in which particular colours can be promoted over others. For example, in order to make the green on my shoes stand out i morphed the green and blue line.

Although strictly not part of colour correction, there were effects to the comic book clips in order for it to fit in the music video well. The main effect came under 'motion' in which the JPEG image of the comic book could be transformed (i.e zoomed and rotated). The main process of the 'swipe' effect that takes place of the comic book was using what is called 'key frames'. I applied a 'keyframe' at a start position of the clip and applied a second 'keyframe' at the end of the clip at a position which i wanted the clip to stop at. The clips would then play the motion between the two applied 'keyframes'.