A few days ago I was able to film some footage of my own. I decided to film a party with a Canon C100. After importing footage I was met with a lot of limitations with what I was used to. This was mainly because it wasn’t RAW footage but also, the colour of the party kept changing due to the strobe lights. Due to this trying to get skin tones was very difficult. Looking back at the final look I feel that the skin tones I got are too reddish.
As you can see, the rooms are filled with reds, blues and greens. This is difficult to create or establish a general look. The image on the left is ungraded and the one on the right is. You can see from the nodes that I have done some masking. This made one half of the image one colour and the other half another. The main problem with this was that just 2 frames later the colour changes because of the strobe lighting.
One correction I tried to be consistent with is warm colours. To achieve this I either raised the red output or lowered the green or blue, or raising the temperature. I was aware that at house parties in comedies especially they use higher reds to give the footage a homely, warm feeling. Another issue I had with this footage was how noisy it got in some places. I must have had the ISO setting too low for how dark it was. The footage has another issue with being out of focus, this was because it was filmed handheld and I was not used to pulling focus. I’m disappointed I was not able to show all the skills I’ve learnt so far from the footage I filmed myself. Below are some more examples of before and after grades being applied.
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