07 Aug Upgrading My Grading

Ok so my last blog post got deleted so ill try to rewrite it as was, with a few minor corrections,

So With Covid slowing everything down I’ve decided to to take a course while I still have the time. This time I’ve decided to go with the ‘Summer Looks Academy’ with https://www.colour.training/ taught by Dado Valentic.

I first met Dado in London at a REDucation course in CVP. I was looking for a course to help improve my cinematography and thought learning everything there is to know about the camera I was shooting on was a good place to start. Dado was the guest speaker on the second and third day who was coming in to talk to us about Colour Science.

During this talk he said something that caught my attention. “If you were to look at the sun without the ozone layer it would actually appear as a shade of green not yellow, The ozone layer acts like a filter and the reason that the sun changes colour as it sets is that the density of the “filter” between you and the sun increases as it sets”. This was connected to the reason that there are twice as many green photocites in a cameras sensor then blue or red because the purpose of the sensor is to capture as much light as possible. When I heard this I thought ‘this is what I should be learning’ and a few months later I returned to London to do my first course with Colour Training in Colour Managment.

After we were presented with our certificates a few of us went to the pub where I nearly lost my certificate when it caught fire in the smoking area but that’s a different story.

This time I’m hoping to delve deeper into the design of Looks and LUTs and create some cool LUTS. I’m excited about doing the course, I really want to develop a look for a film or series from scratch and see it come to life on screen rather then do it all in post but I’m also nervous cause there are some really heavy hitters in the group that work on really big projects. 

Anyway lets see how it goes.