Grading

Once we finished our choices on order of shots, we moved on to grading. We weren't planning on doing anything controversial with grading - our main focuses with grading were skin tone and background colour. As some of the white light washed out the background colour a little bit, we could now work on this to make the shots look much more vibrant.

The split-screen on the right shows the difference between the original and graded shot. the left half of the screen is ungraded, and the right half is graded. To get this effect, we used the 3-way colour corrector to make the blues more vibrant. We also used ProcAmp to turn the brightness, saturation and contrast up for this particular shot.

Grading didn't take as long as I had expected it to, because a lot of our grades we could copy onto other shots with the same set-up, meaning it only took a few days from start to finish amongst other things.