Thanks to both of you! I may be an amateur but I knew about “orange and teal” and all that. Thanks for confirming and explaining how you have to set up your look all the way in pre-production. I’ve tried on many frustrating occasions to, for example, give a fall, chill in the air look to video I’ve shot on sunny days, and thought it was my own shortcomings that failed me.
I do have one question, though. Aren’t even “shadowy horror movie” scenes brightly lit, and then darkened in post in order to avoid noise? I saw one clip from this color grader’s portfolio where a girl was awakened in the middle of the night, and it was brightly lit, then shadows and color grading added in post.