Colour Grading

Colour grading is the process of altering and enhancing the colour of a motion picture, video or image either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally.

As we changed our settings for the different shots frequently we got a variation of lighting and contrasts. Some of the shots were filmed near the window meaning the lighting was faded and over saturated whereas the shots filmed by the door where very dark and dull.
Whilst experimenting with the software of final cut pro my partner and I came across colour grading. We thought it would be the perfect way to express his condition through it and to fix the lighting on each shot.

As you can see from the picture there are three different circles of colours for different tones. Blacks, Mids and Whites. Deciding what tones would suit the condition of agoraphobia was hard. I researched the colours which are usually linked to depression and came across blue/ grey tones therefore we decided to colour grade each clip to have a blue/grey filter on it.

Overall the setting which helped the most in sorting out our footage out was the saturation tool bar as most of footage recorded was over saturated. Increasing the darkness and contrast within  each shot increased the shadowing which can represent how negativity has taken over his life and is controlling him.