After the first edit was simplified as much as possible and all the obvious formatting was completed, it was time to think about the creative editing solutions that go along with the film. This being soundtrack, sound design and colour grading.
Typically, we associate warm colours with happy themes and cool tones with more sinister and menacing themes. Therefore, it makes sense that 'The Unknown' will be colour graded with dark colours and cool tones. Before editing, I looked at some colour grading techniques for DSLR cameras. Below is a colour chart by Wes Anderson that I drew on for inspiration:
On Final Cut, the whole process is pretty easy. You just go to colour correction and decide which hue, exposure and saturation levels you want. Below is an example of my colour chart. After this, you can make one colour grade the dominant by copying and pasting attributes to other clips then just varying little bits as and when necessary.
Below is the original image alongside the new colour graded image. As you can see, there is a completely different tone
On Final Cut, the whole process is pretty easy. You just go to colour correction and decide which hue, exposure and saturation levels you want. Below is an example of my colour chart. After this, you can make one colour grade the dominant by copying and pasting attributes to other clips then just varying little bits as and when necessary.
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