From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day
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What different colors tell the audience
From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day
What different colors tell the audience
Telling stories with video is all about prompting an emotional response from the viewer. And different colors can prompt different responses. For example, pink and purple can be associated with romance, or friendship. Yellow and gold can suggest warmth and postive feeling. Whilst, blue has the contotation of cool temperature. And cool emotion. Visually, certain colors can appear nearer and certain colors can appear further away. Warm colors, like red and orange, seem to project forward, while blues tend to recede. This means that you can make sure that whilst you're shooting, different colors are placed in the foreground and background, to create a sense of depth. But you can also enhance these colors at the editing stage to exaggerate this depth. Shots that are edited together, but don't match, can confuse the audience and unexpected colors or even ungraded shots can lack atmosphere and can also take the viewer out of the story. So it's important to keep corrections and grades…
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What different colors tell the audience1m 6s
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How our eyes see color5m 12s
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Making sure color is consistent across multiple clips in a sequence4m 54s
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Understanding the correct order to apply color correction adjustments7m 43s
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Working with Premiere Pro and the Colorista II plugin7m 55s
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Working with Premiere Pro and Magic Bullet Looks7m 21s
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Making contrast, lighting, and mood changes: A general rule of thumb4m 9s
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