how can I color correct grass?

[Jonathan Grant]

Well, I would agree with you except there are a few things that might save it.

One, we never say what season it is. The majority of it was shot in the spring where the weather really was teetering back and forth between chilly and nice. So, the scenes go back and forth between wearing jackets and short sleeves. Pants are always worn, though.

Two, this is supposed to be a foreboding house so the dead trees actually work really well. There are some leaves on them but they are brown. So, putting leaves back on the trees isn’t really necessary. That helps. We do want it to look kind of dead, but have enough green that it doesn’t look too jarringly obvious that it’s a different month from other scenes.

The sky isn’t great, but maybe we can key that out? Luckily the sky is mostly covered up by trees and given that it’s a pretty quick establishing shot we might be able to get by with the overcast sky, or hopefully key it out and replace with another sky.

I think changing the grass to a greener shade and changing the brown leaves to a greener shade will be enough to sell it. Test audiences will confirm or refute that. The biggest problem is that there’s just so much of that brown in the picture!

[Adam Mccune]

Crop.

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