Colour Correction - Cutaways

Now i have dome the interview colour correction its time to start the cutaways. Here is an example of how i have done the cutaways. Here is what it looked like before

I then ajusted the colour wheels to these settings

to create these tones within the footage

Colour Correction - Interview

Now I have completed my sequence I thought that the first place i should start with colour correction is the interview and so i did. Here is what the footage looked like first

I then ajusted the colour charts to these settings

which then gave me this warm and cool looking shot

Colour Correction Tips

After having the demonstration on how to colour correct I asked if there was any more tips and they were...

• Clear mid tones
  
• High Light & Dark
• lower is better
• little with colour
• be warm and cool
• whites just under 100%
• up a little with saturation
  

Intro Screens

After retrieving the files for the intro screens after having problems with the font attached to the email, i have created my screens. The first being the universal one that all of use use and the second being the question that we were issued. I did have problems with these at first because i forgot to flatten the PSD before saving. This meant that when i imported the file into FCP the color overlay that was on the logo was not seen and we saw the original colours of the logo therefor i went back and flattened the document then re inported it which ment it came out as you see it above.

Solution To Cutaways

After the problems that we have had this week over the cutaways this week there has been a number of suggestions on how we are going to know who is using what over the holidays so the were two ideas proposed. The first that we all put screen grabs on the surver and create a contact sheet and see how many people are using the same clip. That only worked to a certain degree because not everyone was in class. Then the second plan was to create a blog where we can post the screen grabs over the holiday and dodge using each others cutaways.

More Cutaways

After reslising we needed more cutaways the has been more filming going on by everyone today so that we can boost the libary. But once again there may be problems because we are coming up to the holiday and how are we going to know over the holiday who is using what, therefor as a class we need to plan something.

Intro & lowerthirds

Now I have my sequence compleated there is the task of sorting out the introduction and lowerthirds with the info on it.

first I created the intro with a black PSD at 720x576 and placed it at the start of my sequence for one second and had half a second fade out. Then there was the task of creating the lowerthirds, we wanted it to be universal so we created the black bar and cropped it top 70 and bottom 10, and then we all used the same font(Arial) at the same size(36/40 pps) and the text needed a drop shadow. Therefor we had a universal look like this ...

Cutaway Train Wreck

After doing a class crit we all realized the there was a large amount of repetition of the same cutaway from the library. Therefore we thought that we needed more cutaways because wen we started we thought that there would be so many we didn't even think this would happen. Therefor next week will be another cutaway shooting sessions but there are problems with this. when we are in on a wensday it is a quiet campus and the same for firday so there will be very little people around.

Defeating "ERM" In question

I found that my subject "ERM" a lot and she said this most in my last question so first I created the sequence of the interview and then decided to to a stream of four cutways because where I have used the razor tool the jumps in the sequence are obvious. Therefore in the last cutaway I cross dissolved on my last piece of the question and podcast so I had a reasionable amount of footage at the end.

Manual Cross Dissolve

As I have found out with a lot of my cutaways there is not enough time handles for a cross dissolve to be applied. Therefore as a guideline I used the line that is just above halfway on each row of the timeline, used the pen tool and lowered the opacity on the previous clip and raised the next clip. hence creating a cross dissolve.