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All right today we're gonna look at color grading.
You love color grading, I know I love color grading
and more specifically we're gonna talk about how
to get the vintage film look.
It's a really cool look that I actually don't use
often enough.
I wish I could use it more but you gotta have
the time and place to use it.
But we're gonna look at how to do this
in Premiere Pro and pretty much all of these things
you can do straight in Premiere Pro,
you don't need any extra stuff but there are
a few things that you kind of need these video assets for
that you can find somewhere on the internet.
I have this whole big folder of all these video assets
actually on my computer that I've just compiled
over the years found in different random places.
So I'm gonna be using some of those,
some of the things I don't even know actually
where I've gotten them from so I apologize for that
but it doesn't matter, this is a really easy way
to get that really cool vintage film look.
It's hard to even to describe what it is
but as soon as you see it, you'll know.
So let's get into it and first of all,
we're gonna take a look at the color.
Now normally when I color grade my footage,
I kinda go for a teal and orange look,
that's kind of the best way to color grade your footage
and it makes the skin tones pop a lot like right now
with teal and orange.
But in this case, we're actually gonna take the shadows
and we're gonna push them to the red area.
And this really gives it that vintage kind of
faded film look and then we're gonna take
the highlights, we're gonna take it
to the opposite direction and the midtones,
just put 'em a little bit towards the orange.
At least in this case, that's what worked best for me
but this is something that I never do.
But for this vintage faded film look,
it really looks cool to just push that red into the shadows.
Again, don't do this all the time but if you're trying
to do this vintage look, then it works.
It kind of just looks like a 70s vibe, I like it a lot.
Anyways, next we're gonna take the shadows
and we're gonna raise them, we're gonna do
araised shadow look.
It really helps to make the footage look like it's
a little bit faded and essentially you're just not
gonna have any true deep blacks.
Your shadows aren't gonna touch that zero IRE level,
if you know what that means.
If you don't, it's okay, it's totally fine.
And how are you gonna do this is using the curves tool.
Instead of doing an S curve to kind of add your normal
amount of contrast, we're gonna do this little tail
at the shadows that just brings it up a little bit
and you can see it affects the footage quite a bit actually
and you don't want to go too far with this.
As always, don't go overboard with these things
but it has this really cool faded film look.
It just makes it look like it's older, it's vintage.
After that, a really key thing is to add some grain.
Now there's two different ways of doing this
and first I'll go through the best way
but it does require an extra asset.
So these grains are actually from Gorilla Grain I think.
This video's not sponsored by them, again,
this is just something that I've compiled over the years,
something that I've bought a long time ago.
So I'm gonna use a Gorilla Grain and this is essentially
like a scan of the film grain and this would be 16mm film
so it's got this really cool organic grain
and we're just gonna put that over top of the footage
and then we're gonna put the blending mode to overlay.
And that right away gives the footage
this really cool filmic look like it's actually been filmed
on film not on a digital camera.
And pro tip here is if you want it
to be a little bit more prominent,
a little bit more in your face,
you're just gonna add some contrast
to that grain footage and then right away
it pops a lot more.
And if you don't have one of these grain assets
then you can just use the noise effect in Premiere,
that's straight built in.
It's not quite as good, it's not as organic
but it's still pretty good.
So you're just gonna put that on the footage
and make sure to uncheck the colored noise,
you do not want any colored noise,
that's really gross digital, the exact opposite
of what we're trying to go for.
And then you're just gonna add however much you want really.
In this case, I added 15%, that seemed to be a good amount
for me but if you want it to look even grungier,
even older vintage, then you can add some more.
But again, don't go overboard, don't put too much.
Next when I think about vintage film, that old film look,
right away for some reason I think about lens flares.
There's just something about it that makes
the footage look more organic and I guess that's what
I equate the old film look to is having that really organic
and not clinical, not digital look and lens flares
are a great way to make it look more organic,
it just kind of ties everything together.
In this case, I'm just using these video files
that are basically just different lens flares
filmed on a black background.
Again, I have no idea where I found these
but there's a whole bunch of these on the internet.
Just look up lens flares.
And in this case, we're gonna choose screen
which just gets rid of all the black areas
of that asset and again we're gonna play around
with the contrast to just make it pop
but also not be too in your face.
And you can drop the opacity a little bit
if it's too strong.
You don't want it to be too fake looking
because it wasn't there originally
and also you want to choose strategically which lens flares
you use because sometimes they just wouldn't make sense.
So I changed the contrast and there we go,
it looks really cool, just ties everything in together
and it gives that organic look to it which, again,
makes it look more vintage.
And then lastly, something that you have to try out
or at least play around with a little bit is film burns.
I actually don't even know what the history is.
If you know the history of what a film burn is
or how it actually happens, I assume it's when
the film burns somehow.
I could be wrong.
Anyways it's this really cool kind of trippy effect
that happens but you can find these video files
and add them over top of your footage and I find these work
really well to transition from clip to clip
to kind of hide that transition point especially if there's
a flash in the film burn which there usually is.
But again, don't go overboard with this.
So we're gonna put the film burn on top of the clips
where there's a transition from clip to clip
and then we're gonna line up where that brightest spot is
right as the transition is happening
and we're gonna choose the blending mode to screen
for this and again, you wanna play around
with the opacity, the contrast of it to get it just right
so it's not too much but it's also, you know,
it's in there, it looks good.
And then just take the opacity down, taper it off
so it's not on the clip the whole time.
I've seen a lot of people use film burns
and they just kind of overlay film burns
over the whole video and that just gets
really distracting and weird.
Place them in strategic points, especially if there's
a weird transition from this clip to that clip,
put it right there and it's gonna make
that perfectly seamless and give it
that old vintage film look and boom, there we go,
vintage film look accomplished.
First we just change up those colors a little bit,
add that red in the shadows and then we're gonna raise
the blacks and then we add that grain,
use those lens flares, film burns and boom,
there you go, easy as that.
But like with everything, don't go overboard
with something like this and only use it
when it actually makes sense for your video.
If you're trying to do a flashback
or you just want that feel for that video,
then use this kind of vintage film look
but don't just use it for all of your videos
because it's gonna look really weird
and overboard and it's just gonna get old really fast.
All right that's the vintage film look,
I hope you guys learned something from this video.
It's time for me to pack up and head to the cottage
with my brother.
My brother's coming to visit from Finland
so I'm really looking forward to that.
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