Colour Grading

What is colour grading?

Colour grading is the process of altering and enhancing the colour of a motion picture, video image, or still image either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally. The photo-chemical process is also referred to as colour timing and is typically performed at a photographic laboratory.

I have chosen to show my progress of colour grading on my final edit of Film Noir. At the time I have done the colour grading on IMovie on my Macbook due to After Effects not work during the time.

As you can see in these normal shots we took at first, you can see everything in the background including shadows of the actors, equipment etc which isn't very good. As it's a film noir, my job is to edit the film into black and white which is the theme. I went onto IMovie and played about the the colours to get and make it perfect so it would look like a film noir.

As you can see in the top right hand corner, I started to play around with the colours then brought them down to make it look like a film noir. On IMovie, it was basically simple to bring the colours down on all of them but I would need to do it properly on After Effects in order to show that I understand.