in today's video we're gonna talk about five mistakes
you should avoid as a filmmaker what is the color grading and how color
grading related to filmmaking well color grading
is generally extension of cinematography and whenever you have a project whether
you shot it yourself or you're attempting to color grade you
should always put several thoughts into the place before
you're gonna approach your project in today's video we're
gonna talk about five mistakes that you should avoid as a
filmmaker and that brings us to mistake number one
and number one mistake is white balancing every shot and i see that all
the times people tend to white balance every time
they point the camera different way and this is the worst
mistake you can do in my experience put the dem temperature
set it to 5600 kelvin let's say if you shoot during the day
and just leave it stop adjusting every time you point the camera because
what happens when you start color grading
now instead of just playing with exposure now you also have to match
your color temperature and if you're doing complicated look
you're in disaster a lot of times you cannot match shots and it's just a
really terrible practice to do mistake number
two is having no clue what you're doing when you
approach color grading and i see this all the time in business too people sit
down they know they have to do something with
the color but they have no idea what to do so what they end up
doing is just piling bunch of different things adjusting all kinds of stuff
temperature contrast you name it like try to create
weird looks and in the end it looks like crap
have a plan before you're approaching color grading have you looked set
on exactly what you're doing whether it's an action movie or documentary
have a little plan before you start color grading mistake number three
doing too much and just like previous mistakes
doing too much can really ruin your shot so what happens when you have no plan
when you keep wrong wide temperature you keep doing
too much work and in the end your shot either looks
just too much things going on or nothing it's very
easy to ruin perfect shot by doing too much work to it
if the footage shot very well if it looks good from the beginning
just stop walk away you don't have to be doing things
just because you feel like it's your job as a colorist
or a filmmaker to keep doing things to it sometimes in some of my projects i
just simply slap one of my lots on it i adjust maybe
shadows or exposure in general and that's it i don't do anything else
in some shots i can have 20 30 notes to it it's all
depends on the situation but don't do more
than you have to common mistake number four is try to copy others
when you try to copy others you no longer have your own
signature your own look into your project
and believe me it's absolutely okay by trying to learn
look from the other filmmakers or try to replicate the hollywood movie
the idea is learn how to do it but don't just copy it without realizing
what's going on in those shots because whatever your project is
it may dictate a certain look certain gamma
certain contrast certain shadows everything has to be
flowing like one if you're just simply copying look from somebody else without
thinking your shot may look cool but is it
necessarily fits your film it may not so be sure not to copy others
look or work just without thinking
always make sure it fits your project and try to come up with your own look
that way you have a little bit signature going on
behind your work and finally mistake number five
is using gimmicks stop using gimmicks like plugins flares reflections
there's tons of plugins right now you can get for davinci resolve
premiere after effects some of them look cool
but stop using them if they don't fit your narrative again it's all comes down
to the previous mistakes if you're color grading your work don't
just sit there and think that you have to pile up as
much as you can that way you work has more value
or the client going to pay you more because they're not
simplicity is the key in being a good colorist smaller is better
and this is completely true even in the big hollywood movies a lot of times the
most simplest natural color work is the best
way to go so don't use gimmicks just because
you think it's gonna add a little bit value to
your work it will not if you guys enjoyed this video please be
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