Since Richy is not in school until later today, I look at how to make a normal DSLR camera footage look more cinematic and easier to colour grade. Some important thing that I learnt was flat profile video and also the fact that I must have a decent monitor to colour grade.
What is a flat profile video? Flat profile alone looks milky, washed out and desaturated, that is because it has a low contrast and a low saturation; if we were to use that footage alone, we can do but the film will look bland and dull. This is because a flat profile helps in the post process stage of colour corrections and colour grading in the way that it preserves the dynamic range as much as possible to keep shot that are exposed to too much light or too much darkness be shown better with a lower contrast.
I then applied this to my DSLR camera by lowering the contrast, saturation and sharpness to the lowest setting possible. Colour tone doesn't need to be touch because it changes the green and pink hues of the video.
I then gathered some stationary around the class room and try to find as many variation of colour as possible. The picture below shows the difference between auto settings on my camera and the flat profile settings that I set up myself
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| Auto settings from the camera |
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| Flat Profile settings that I manually put input into the camera custom presets |
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| Auto |
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| Flat Profile |
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