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*

Comments

[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...