Colour Management Recap

• Film
• Foundation Degree

Colour Management Recap

Which of the below is false?

1. Colour management allows for an efficient colour grading workflow
2. Colour management is all about transforming information from the camera to the output
3. Colour management organises colour in order of importance
4. Colour management can be done project wide or clip by clip

What are the benefits of colour management?

Overview

• The Role of the Colourist
• Overview of the Colour Page
•  Using the tools discussed to do our own colour grade

What is the colourist job?

The Role of the Colourist

• Preproduction

- Work with the DOP and director to develop the 'look' of the film

- Create a LUT / CDL for viewing on set

- Decide upon a data workflow

• Production

- Grade 'Dailies'

- Review footage

• Post-Production

- Organise and sort the footage for the colour grade

- First Pass (Colour correcting)

- Second Pass (Colour grading)

- Secondaries (dealing with outlier issues)

- Final Pass

- Deliver (either back to editor or exporting master file)

The Colour Page