Colour Grading

Because we had shot in a number of different locations, we knew that we would need to colour grade in order for the sequence to be consistent.

The powder paint fight shots were rather grainy so needed the contrast and brightness levels adjusted. The studio shots needed lifting up as it was a little dull, and the smashing plates/lip syncing shots needed the saturation increased to highlight the bright colours within the frames.

We used the programme, 'Color' to filter our shots through, however, none of us had previously used this editor before. To gain experience and knowledge, we watched several different online tutorials which were all really helpful in getting us started from the basics. We also experimented with the programme first hand, playing about with the different features and what they do.

We eventually realised that we had to do this whole process clip by clip, applying different filters (which could be saved separately, then dragged and dropped) onto each clip. This was a lengthy process which required a lot of patience - especially due to the amount of choppy shots we used.


We changed the colours, the contrast and the lighting and we then sent the sequence back to Final Cut Pro so that we could edit more if we needed too. The colour grading made the footage look like one whole music video and what made everything fit together in the end. This whole process was very successful.