Interesting project @astraban

Depends on how far you want to push it, however, it seems like a "naturalistic" scene by itself. IMO you could achieve good results by carefully pushing towards blue / violet / magenta in shadows and slightly towards cyan/blue/magenta in the highs but be careful to retain a tad of warmth as if the light is golden / light orange.. And then I´m talking about this particular shot only; let me explain my thinking:

In my experience golden/orange with complimentary colors (towards violet/magenta in the shadows) and an overall tendency towards blue is as cold as it gets in winter / late autum (w/o snow).. with a certain crispness and clarity you never see in warm seasons.

I did a quick CC in PS, curves and color balance, you could easily achieve something similar with curves and 3-way CC. If it needs to be "more dreamy" I´d try out selective (unrealistic) out of focus areas.. I pushed it as FAR towards coldness as I could on a crappy monitor without loosing realism in the color scheme. Less could be more (a bit more orange) but a washed out look (like your grade above) might give more of a sensation of past. So that could be a good or bad decision depending on the context.

Other might have different experiences of light in the kind of circumstances you want to evoke, so this is just my pennies worth.

@astraban, don´t be afraid to push it, just keep an eye out for trouble! :) and Color in 32 bit when you have cs6! Footage will hold up better. With that said, I haven´t used cs6 myself so hopefully it won´t introduce any reliability issues! (I´m sure you can do a bit of research on that beforehand!)

Obviously there can be some trouble with noise if most of the shot is from the lower end (and pushed hard) but I´ve found that it´s possible to work around that by de-noising and re-applying noise / texture afterwards. I usually do it in AE though (de-noise with neat video), so not sure how it will work in Premiere.

P.s. for pushing really heavily towards blue it might be a good idea to make a duplicate layer, monochrome blue for blending.

@subco nice blur there I think.

Thanks for the try @jozik! I prefer the more subtle touch of the first picture. I'm actually grading another sequence using precious @subco photoshop tuning. More difficult to adapat to each shot than my old 2 minute grading routine, but very pleasing. Thanks again.

@astraban Trailer looks great. Is this a full length feature film/play? Good choice on music and editing great. Very nice shot compositions. Would you mind sharing what lenses and settings you were using? Great stuff here.

This footage is wonderful, @astraban-

RBD

update : the play has been bought in several theater for the wole year now and the script is sold for an english version. I don't know when or where but they may need an english video crew for the shoot one day. I'll try to pass the word here if I ear something about it. ;-)

Congrats

@astraban Amazing work!

After the small success of the play we're shooting a prequel of it. I edited the first post to show my first attempt of editing one of the new sequences. I'm just in charge of shooting the video sequences - someone better than me will do the final edit/grading/mixing. Enjoy, I hope.