Color Grading

[extrapenguin]

I got an idea for a vid last week and, in a manic rush, did the clipping and timing over two days, with some later tweaking to timing. Now it's basically done ... except it could probably do with color grading. And: How??? Fellow vidders, how do you figure out color grading? Is there some equivalent to Lim's Demystifying Vidding (mostly about clip choice/transitions) for color grading? Do people just go "okay, I want this to be Sad, I shall google the Sad Colors and grade it Blue"? I've tried searching for tutorials, but they all seem focused on the How, when I need help on the What.

*incoherent screaming*

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[extrapenguin]

think about when you feel that sort of way, how do you see the world around you?
I think this is the step I'm having problems with, lol. I know, from theory, that e.g. red is associated with rage, but I do not think in color or visual stuff, but rather motion. I know how tragedy moves, but not what color it is, if that makes sense?

I am mostly okay with vids that don't do much with the color, but sometimes I see people who do lots of things with color and people seem to like that a lot? And I want to exorcise the idea out of my brain, but I also want other people to enjoy it. Plus I want to, idk, extend my repertoire of tricks? And coloring is something I don't consider myself to have a great handle on.

[annathecrow]

This reminded me of a site I once bookmarked for art reasons where someone made color palettes of Wes Anderson's movies, and as I was looking for it I found this article on color in cinema that seems on quick glance to be something you might be interested in. I didn't have time to read through it properly or watch all the video, but it looks very in-depth.

(This was the site I remembered, btw.)

[extrapenguin]

Oh, yes, that's good! The reference sheets at the bottom especially. Thank you for the link!

Moviemaking gives a much greater control over the color palette compared to vidding (choice of what goes in the shot vs editing already shot footage), though now I wonder how much I hate myself wrt selective coloring...