MZed has just released a new and extensive course on color grading by Ollie Kenchington. This new course is the follow-up to the highly acclaimed “Directing Color” course and aims to give a more in-depth perspective on a colorist’s actual work. Here’s what you need to know. The course starts with an hour-long, very in-depth hands-on tutorial to setting up your grading suite: monitor setup, display choice, appropriate ambient lighting for the room you are working in, as well as neutral grey paint, which of course has to be pigment-free – nothing is left to chance here and Ollie patiently takes us through the whole process. As we progress, we get into working with Resolve, starting with a module on contrast adjustment and one on color balancing (what other courses might consider to be primary and secondary adjustments). Here, we are taken through basic adjustments with lift, gamma and gain controls, the additive RGB color model, and color and luminance perception in general. We also learn how to utilise the scopes and use them to double-check our perceptional biases. All of the hands-on examples shown here are punctuated time and again, as are all the other modules, by short on-topic-interviews with industry professionals like director/cinematographer Brett Danton, colorist Toby Tomkins, cinematographer and fellow MZed educator Philip Bloom, director Sam Buchanan and Oscar-winning make up artist Peter Swords King. Following our basic color corrections, we start working on more advanced topics like continuity (between different cameras, as well as between different...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 1 November, 2018