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Getting a consistent aesthetic to a short film
Hello,
I’m on the verge of completing a short film edit where a few sequences had to be reshot due to a lost tape 6 months apart, therefore the look is entirely different from, in many cases, one shot to the next due to the different light conditions on each shoot.
We need to get a particular look to the whole short, and are looking to get something similar to Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, as the film is set ‘somewhere’ in the Mediterranean and we want an orangey, warm look throughout.
The problem is the differing lighting of the original shoots, and the fact that a few shots are much darker than others initially, so need gamma correction before any effects are applied. Or do they?
So, in a nutshell, I have PremPro 1.5 and Boris Continuum 4.0, along with AE 6.5, and would appreciate it if anyone could give any pointers as to the best way to acheive a consistent look to a short. I appreciate that it’s difficult without seeing the footage, but pointers would be awesome.
Thanks,
J . . .
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1 Reply
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If you have AE PRo, you could cut the picture, and when finished render an uncompressed file for After Effects and use the Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse plugin.
Or Barend has a basic tute at
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/onneweer_barend/colorgrading_1/index.html
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