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Originally posted by Rjames

Our next film is a supernatural-horror titled "Demon Equation" We are going to shoot it on a Xh-a1. I'm thinkiing about color grading this film and I've never done this before any help would be great.

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well, you should definatly color grade. color grading is the only way to really give a film the ??film?? look. you should always color grade.

Anything we do to our film must have a purpose. Nothing is done because others do it. Colour grading should only be done if the material needs it in order to achieve the desired look. If what you shot looks exactly the way you (the director/cinematographer) want it to look, colour grading has no purpose.

Shoot your film, edit it together, look at it, then get someone else to look at it. Think about how you wanted it to look and if there is anything you'd want changed to the visuals in order to improve the appearance. If there is, and it involves colour, then colour-grade it. If it looks exactly the way you want it to look, then don't.

Exactly what Vasic said.

I usually up the contrast on most of what I film, because I like the look. Simple as that.

I did a film awhile back that was filmed with a consumer camcorder, where the automatic white balance shifted between takes. The result was a disparity of colours between certain shots. So, colour grading allowed me to blend them together, making the movie consistent (except for the one shot that no matter what I did I couldn't get it right... still so much to learn!).

Colour grading to look like film is only half the battle to get that look. Frame rate, depth of field, and grain (ie. grain and not video noise) are huge factors as well.

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