Can a brilliant #filmcolorist save your #indiefilm? Probably—if you could afford one! Chuck and Victoria return for another episode of Indie Film Podcast where they reflect (a little too honestly) on all the mistakes they’ve made in color grading and how you can avoid them! Hear all about the biggest color grading questions, like:
🔴 Why does your footage look like it was filmed on Mars?🟢 Why is everyone’s skin either Smurf blue or Oompa Loompa orange?
🔵 Can LUTs save you? (Spoiler: Not if you don’t know what you’re doing.)
From struggling to color-match five different cameras in a live music shoot (Sony, Panasonic, and Blackmagic, oh my!) to discovering their first two indie films were black-and-white only because they were scared of color grading, Chuck and Victoria share the lessons they’ve learned the hard way.
💡 Key Takeaways: ✔ What actually is color grading? (We promise we Googled it.) ✔ How to avoid common indie film color disasters. ✔ The secret weapon in DaVinci Resolve that Chuck swears by. ✔ Why Twilight’s baseball scene is an insult to eyeballs (and baseball fans) everywhere.
💬 Are colorists afraid of oversaturation? Is modern film looking too flat? Drop your thoughts in the comments!
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