Film Writing Post 18

Colour Grading

Cold Washout
For this clip I used the Colour Balance tool to give the clip a colder look to it by emphasizing the colour blue while reducing the warmer red colour. I also went on the tool Brightness and Contrast to increase the saturation thereby increasing the intensity of the shadows making the clip that more menacing and eerie. With all this there is a clear tonal change to the atmosphere of the original clip since it has a heightened sense tension and bleakness. This is useful to convey a certain tone without really explicitly telling the audience what the clip was about.

Warm Over Saturation
For this one I thought I would experiment with doing the same process as the Cold Wash Out but with a warmer colour and what I ended up with was a strange tone that gave off a very unsettling feeling. It almost attempts to put the audience at ease with the warm colour as well as warn them on an impending danger.

Warm Over Exposure
In this clip I used the tool Fast Colour Corrector to see what a more simplified version to adjust colour gain compares to the more complex ones. As it turns out it allows you to focus on a certain colour using a wheel. This is a very easy way to hone in what colour combination I could use but it is very basic. I had to add the Brightness and Contrast tool just to make the clip a bit more appealing but I can see the use of this tool since it is good for experimenting with colour. The end result was that the clip resembles the sepia tone, giving the impression that it’s either a flashback or an event in the past.

https://drive.google.com/a/student.rmit.edu.au/file/d/0B4iXF6gqByUoOC01Tk5DUG8zbUE/view

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Film Writing Post 17

Today we filmed the footage for our presentation at the Royal Botanical Gardens. This was a very last minute change since we were unable to secure our previous location. As it turns out it was a blessing in disguise as the Royal Botanical Gardens was very pleasing in terms of audio and aesthetics, with many locations that inspired us. It was a fest for the eyes and ears as we were spoiled for choice for locations and I believe we could have spent all day there just looking around but since we are on such a tight time schedule we had to buckle down and get shooting.

As the wind blew, the leaves of various kinds of trees slowly glided to the earth which was accompanied with the sound of a nearby ratting of a bamboo patch. This is just a sample of the amazing sights and sounds of these gardens as I was told previously that it is an ideal location to film but never actually got to. With what I saw today I can say with confidence that this will not be the last shoot I will be part of at the Royal Botanical Gardens.

Besides being a relatively windy day and the temperature climbing to the mid thirties it was a relatively smooth shoot. There were the occasional passersby stepping into frame at the wrong time and fining each other in such a vast place was challenging but once we got together and planned our shots, I feel that we shot some good footage. There is of course the argument that you can’t judge your footage until the post-production phase and I agree with it. With that said, I am mildly optimistic that we captured what we set out to do. We faced many challenges throughout the development if this project so it is a great relief to see it materialize.