HOW TO COLOR A FEATURE FILM: Pro tips and tricks from a case study in Davinci Resolve
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A fascinating behind the scenes look at the color grading of a feature film. I do an in-depth walk through the vision setting of the high level look and then grading on a scene by scene basis in Davinci Resolve. Subtle adjustments in saturation, contrast, and exposure can dramatically alter the cinematic mood and atmosphere of a scene. We also talk about how this mini masterclass in color can show us how using visual themes can help harness the flow of emotions through a movie.
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0:00 Intro
0:14 Vision Casting
3:14 Building the Global Look
6:47 Visual Themes (Example 1)
8:58 Prison Scene Grade
10:23 Grading a Flashback
11:25 Creating visual grit
13:35 Key-framing saturation
15:15 Visual conflict through color
17:06 Outro
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You are slowly becoming my favorite coloring channel on KZread .
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
I appreciate it! Thanks
@mustafakamal8608
2 ай бұрын
Oh not slowly for sure, 2 videos and I'm in
beautiful insights, thank you B!
Man I’m so glad you made this ! The way you set up the grading for the whole film is simple. Thank you
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Great breakdown! Excellent work, Barrett.
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Jason! HueShift has been a great addition to the toolkit! Thanks for all your work on it 👍🏻👍🏻
Great Job! I like how you have preserved the beautiful skin tones in the daylight scenes :)
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Thanks!
This is so insightful, Barrett! Excellent breakdown 🙌
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Your talking head lighting and grade is heavenly
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Thanks!
Love the BTS approach; so helpful to understand the GOAL of a scene or film and HOW THEY GOT THERE. Very helpful! Mike
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Mike
Love your channel. Very well done :)
@BarrettKaufman
2 ай бұрын
Thanks!
Awesome!
@BarrettKaufman
2 ай бұрын
Thanks!
Love it man😊
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Thanks 🙌🏻
awesome!!! thanks
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Sure thing!
This is great B - love the breakdown! #filmcolorist
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Thanks!
Great video - You mentioned changing the grade "over the course of a scene". Is this process done manually/numerically, using some sort of key framing, or other?
@BarrettKaufman
2 ай бұрын
There's a couple ways to do it, but in this case I set a start and end sat level, then adjusted the clips in between on a shot-by-shot basis. No keyframes if I recall correctly
With the midtone detail, did you audition the texture pop ofx at all? I found it to allow for much finer tuning, and less of that "fake hdr" photography look.
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
There are a number of tools that could serve the purpose, but we started with midtone detail and liked the results. Texture pop could work as well, but it was more complexity than needed
@MarkusFinholt
3 ай бұрын
@@BarrettKaufman Simplicity is key!
Great value, I'm i the only one that sees noise?
Hi Barret, I see that you work within the 'group post clip & timeline,' but one thing that makes me curious is whether you also make adjustments at the clip level? Because I've noticed that every time you toggle the exposure node in the group post clip, all the clips match well.
@BarrettKaufman
2 ай бұрын
I definitely do plenty at the clip level, but the goal of this video was to look at the process from a more macro level
@BANGBONSCHANNEL
2 ай бұрын
@@BarrettKaufman Can you give me an overview of what you do? Just to make sure I don't get lost. Do you also make corrections on exposure, contrast, and balancing at the clip level? And then, do you finally make adjustments to exposure, contrast, etc. again in the group post clip?
what monitor are you using? Also what would you recommend for first time
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Monitors are a tricky discussion and there's not a one size for all answer sadly. I'll put this idea on my list for future videos to chat through this decision making process 👍🏻
Do you use curve for creating tonal contrast? Do tonal contrast goes to timeline or clip adjustment?
@BarrettKaufman
2 ай бұрын
As a general rule: linear contrast clip to clip, s-curve at a timeline or scene level
@mustafakamal8608
2 ай бұрын
I always struggle how to correct contrast in clip with tonal curve look in mind. Are there general rule of thumb how to correct / shotmatch contrast? Like spesific ire range?
@BarrettKaufman
2 ай бұрын
Here's a bit of extra info! kzread.info/dash/bejne/iaerl9ikd6zSlc4.html
What is your pen-mouse thing setup? Is it an ipad?
@BarrettKaufman
2 ай бұрын
Wacom Intuos Pro 👍🏻 Love it
This movie grade in dci p3 or 709 if grade in 709 then how to trim pass for cinema projector dci p3
Hey Barrett, please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please bring that warm toned look tutorial you used in this video. I'm a beginner colorist and I'm grading a short film, and the client wants that warm tone looks. Please bring a tutorial fast. I'm talking about the warm look at 03:20 , 09:41 , 11:30 . mainly at 03:20 please help
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
I'm glad you like it! I'll keep this in mind for a future BTS video
Nice work man!!! 🫱🏾🫲🏿 is there a video on setting up your “timeline nodes” into scene wide. Like a how to vid?
@BarrettKaufman
2 ай бұрын
I don't have a video on it yet but that's a good idea 👍🏻
That’s a very useful knowledge, your work is such a great and subtle, mostly creators on youtube don’t talk in this depth. Would love to see a proper big breakdown from importing to delivery 🫡❣️
@BarrettKaufman
Ай бұрын
Thank you! I'm glad it's valuable
What was the budget on this film?
@BarrettKaufman
3 ай бұрын
Don't remember off the top of my head but it was a very efficient production, definitely sub 1M