Grade and adjust colour
Overview
This Standard is about helping to achieve the envisaged look ensuring the authenticity and balance of the material or creating or enhancing a mood or particular stylised look. This Standard should apply to anyone who is involved with the grading and adjusting colour.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
find a vocabulary that enables clear communication with the
client
- develop ideas that help tell the story visually or solve a visual
problem
- agree the look, feel and mood to be achieved throughout the
production with clients
- agree what can be achieved within timescale and budget with
relevant people
- propose and trial alternative adjustments to achieve creative goals
for scenes, shots or stylised presentation
- share ideas with colleagues working on related 2D, 3D and audio
at appropriate times
- compensate for variations in the material to achieve scene to
scene and shot to shot matching for actors, objects and locations
- adjust colour, image sharpness and other textural improvements
to enhance scenes or shots and fit the required look, feel and
style
- optimise the incorporation of visual effects, avoiding those that
unnecessarily call attention to themselves
- make critical judgements about video quality against expected
artistic standards
produce colour corrected masters in required data formats
integrate work with the overall agreed post production workflow
maintain security for files and other materials in line with company
requirements
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
the effect of colour on an audience's perception and how to
enhance perception through adjusting it
how to assess video quality to expected artistic standards
how to find out from clients the effect they are trying to achieve
and offer creative solutions to them
- how to identify specific creative goals for scenes and shots or
stylised presentation
- the use of Lookup Tables (LUTs) or agreed colour pipelines in
achieving consistent artistic requirements across a range of
deliverables and display technologies
ways in which different recoding media and cameras affect colour
components of colour in film and colour space
how to use various equipment and software to adjust colour,
image sharpness and other textural enhancements, such as
digital diffusion and softening
- how to recognise the limitations of different source footage and
how far you can push the colours in post production
format and labeling requirements for different workflows
current viewing standards and current professional, national and
international standards of delivery and expressions of best
practice for the range of platforms and content
- the capabilities of different hardware and software facilities and
the techniques for using them
how to identify the cost implications of additional work
where to find information about budget, timescales, deliverables
and workflow
- company systems for storage, back up and security