Week 6: Post-Production Light Fixing in Premiere Pro #1

FIRST SCENE COLOR GRADE

The first shot itself was not very impressive in its raw setting. Below, I have snips of the same shot put through different editing. First, I put a screenshot of the clip into Adobe Lightroom and immediately started working on the exposure, contrasts, highlights, exposure curves, mid-tones, and adjusting each individual color in the scene. I wanted to make the blacks louder and bring out more reds. I turned up the black dial and dragged the whites down. After, I exported these settings as 1 preset and converted it to a .CUBE file to import into Premiere Pro. I put in the effect called "Lumetri Color" and imported the file. I still wanted to make some more adjustments in Premiere Pro to dramatize the shot. I added a slight Vignette, added an inverted Gaussian blur to add a focal point to the main character. After, adding a few more touchups on color, I was happy with the shot.




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