Colour Grade Testing

As said previously, I need to look at colour grading, especially to get my film to have a similar style to The Lovely Bones. Also, a lot of my test footage came out quite dark.

I decided to colour grade some of my test footage to see how similar I can get it to look like The Lovely Bones. I imported some of my test footage into Color and I began by removing some of the blue; I also upped the red and green. I concentrated mainly on the mid-tones of the shot. When I got an overall style that I was happy with I began working on a secondary grade, where I applied a total of 6 vignettes and graded each one. I began by grading the background; I turned up the greens to give the background a similar look to The Lovely Bones. I applied various vignettes to different parts of the sky in order to get a desired look.

Cinematography - Colour Grade testing from Laura Johnson on Vimeo.

I think that I managed to get the footage to look quite similar to The Lovely Bones and I will try to get the final piece as close to this as possible.