Grading is currently used in almost every movie, as the footage always requires processing. Grading and coloring enhance the finished shots to the mood board that the director and production designer set. For example, the film was filmed in a gray location, all colors are monotonous, but according to the director’s idea, it is required to create a color contrast. At the same time, the location itself needs to be slightly discolored and the whole picture needs to be redone in sepia tones. The grading of the film in this case is precisely giving the frames a sepia tone, in fact toning. Color correction on the frames will be expressed in the construction of color contrast.
Film grading can be done before or after color grading. The first step after receiving the materials is developing it into a color profile in accordance with the recording parameters of your camera. Then you can apply loot, and then grade and repaint, or apply loot after repainting. This operation needs quite a long time to learn, a lot of training on various projects. Only after at least a thousand hours can a performer be considered a professional. But of course, subject to the decent quality of the material produced. Some performers fail.
Video grading
The tonality of a picture is sometimes called mud, it is the mood of the video, which is created by various techniques. Including directing techniques, but the production designer has more influence on the mood. The Holy Trinity director, cameraman and artist are discussing the project. The director comes up with the idea and the skeleton of the project, the artist surrounds this skeleton with details and decorations. The operator, on the other hand, comes up with how to shoot it beautifully, preserving the atmosphere and emotions. Grading videos on YouTube is usually not done, because it is not required. Only in the case when you need to show the professionalism of the performer, you can stir up the grading of the video.
In other cases, the YouTuber does not require this, because he does not need your f***ing grading. Creators often have a desire to do grading in one style. But when the result appears on the screen, they see that this is not what they need. As a result, the colorist redoes the work in a different style. Sometimes it takes quite a long time if there are many layers of depth and a lot of details in the frame. For example, you don’t want to capture some of the details and want to keep their color or make it on a different level. Then you have to use masks or qualifiers to filter out the details. Difficult? Our video production company can help you with this.