From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day

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Coloring an interrogation scene

Coloring an interrogation scene

From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day

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Coloring an interrogation scene

When you're preparing for grades, it's so important, so useful to talk to your costume department and coordinate your efforts. In this shot, we've got a scene inside a warehouse and this is going to be the standard thriller shot where we push the shadows towards a blue or maybe a bluey green. And they're balanced against the orangery skin tones. This is a standard thriller effect that's used on lots and lots of movies these days. There's one inherent problem with this though. Although we've got a nice gray background, which will accept a color change to green quite nicely. And our character is dressed in a dark gray jacket, you don't always have complete control over your entire set. Notice the nice yellow post here. So, when you're color grading, you want to make sure that the audience is looking in the right place and they're not being distracted by elements in the background. So, let's have a look at how we might do this. I'll get a copy of Colorista. And drop that onto this clip…

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