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Colour grading is an essential part of the post production process. It's the part where you finalise the look of your film. To build the world of your story, you have to have a look in mind. Every choice made in the pre-production, production and post production must support your ability to create the look you have in mind.
At PAITAN media, we know that there is a science to art. and so we spend time to understand the science/technology so we can create beautiful art. In filmmaking we conceptualise the scene we want to capture, create it through production design, build the lighting to support the look , capture images from the scene using camera's and then finalise the images in post production. The choices that we make in each step influence the final product. Color grading is a post production process in which the data captured by the camera is manipulated/ processed to achieve a desired look in terms of color and tonal range.. At PAITAN media we use Davinci Resolve Color by Blackmagic Design for our color grading.
The color grading software works with the data captured by the camera. The bit depth of the camera data is important because it determines the number of colours from scene (color resolution) that are represented in the data captured. Color grading requires a resolution of 10bits or more for good image processing. In color grading we manipulate the Luminance (brightness) and color information captured by the camera.
There are so many different ways to "manipulate" the digital image to achieve a look and I can't cover all of them in this blog. What I hope this blog does is to stir and interest in learning more about the subject. One book that I found quite useful was The Color Correction Handbook. which helped me understand the color grading. If you also would like hands on experience grading, you could also download the free version of Davinci Resolve from the Blackmagic Design website and also their color grading tutorials.
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