#colour-correct

[improperdancer]

Colour Correcting

Just something I think I should let anyone who does anything similar to what I do in terms of producing video;

Colour correct. Always always always colour correct.

Colour correction easily saved my project from looking like something a 5 year old slapped together with a handy-cam. There are scenes in my video where the lighting was so dark you couldn't make out faces, the lights in the room would make the interviewee actually look ill and some lights just blue the shit out of everything. By colour correcting these scenes they look perfect now.

For example, in my video ( https://vimeo.com/61957603 ) you'll see a meeting room at 1:35. Looks nice and bright, doesn't it? That has been colour corrected like there was tomorrow the lighting was so bad. You couldn't tell where that coffee was bought from it was so dark.

Remember kids; colour correcting is that essential tool to make everything you do look a thousand times better, for realz.

[improperdancer]

Into the bin

And a whole ass-load, to accurately measure it, of footage has just been binned because during filming one location, I very evidently did not adjust the iris of the camera to the lights and now every shot there has banding on it, so unless I want to spend hours key-framing and colour-correcting, the footage has to be binned.

Given the time restrictions I have, which I have no one to blame but myself, I can't afford such a massive delay, so I have binned the shortage, shortened the documentary by quite a bit and just have to suck it up.

I have a distaste for editing.