The Interview... Colour Grading

After struggling in the past and still being determined to try and get colour grading right, I felt that this was the time to get it right. It is only now that I understand that a big part of colour grading is making sure that the skin colour tones look right, however, it is acceptable to have a stylised colouring system such as in the matrix where everything is a shade too green. Although I wanted to get the tones right, I also wanted to get a nice 'filmic' look to the film. This was possible with the 7D as it meant that we were able to crush the blacks, which makes it look
sharper.
As you can see this increased the look of the film ten fold in comparison to the footage from the z1 for man without a movie camera. However, just before we finished up a professional colour gradist came in and spent an hour on it, but like us struggled, because the screen was not able to cope with our HD footage. I think that although he knew what he was doing I had spent two days working on it, and in his hour he only just came to terms with how to work with our footage, which may mean that my colour grade looks better. I can't be sure of this however, because neither worked on the colour grading monitor, but we will see at the screening.

The edit overall now it is finished look great I am very happy with it. Although, I can across a lot of problems due to the sound, I think that it helped me learn techniques that will be transferable to future productions. The 7D meant that we had an untidy work flow and a lot more rendering time than would have been necessary if we shot in standard definition. This has paid off and I think we now have a film that is worthy of being exhibited to audiences that aren't from our course and entering external festivals. Whilst making this film I have become a lot more adept to final cut pro, and have created an edit where I have done more than create a sequence of images. The extra things that I have done have stepped up the aesthetic values of 'The Interview'. The location and the older actors have also contributed to a film that is not obviously a student film, which we were trying to avoid and have done successfully. Over the course of this module, I have learned skills that will make me capable of independently creating films. Hopefully our hard work and effort pays off and people like it!