Editing The Video - Grading

Editing and grading the video in Premiere Pro

To grade our video we used:

• Procamp, to edit brightness, contrast and saturation
• Three Wheel Colour Correction, to colour correct shots, such as making skin tones less yellow in the band shots for example
• Change Colour, to change certain colours, such as making the whites more pure in the band shots

Having used them before, my group was confident and quick to grade with these tools.

Editing In Premiere Pro

Whilst editing the second dance sequence, we used Crop and Motion to create the split screen effect. Since no one in the group had done this before, we had to practise on a new sequence so as to make sure we got the desired effect for the final cut of the video.

Grading in After Effects

However, we had to grade the 80s narrative shots in After Effects, due to the need for more precise colour correction; this was because the shots were so yellow that my skin tone blended in with the background. We used Colour Finesse 3 to colour correct the shots; I did this, having never used the software before. We feel that the final product was fitting with the rest of our video.

Grading with Colour Finesse 3