Grading for Cinematographers

Are you a cinematographer who has had learning about colour grading on your to-do list?

Then this is the workshop you've been waiting for.

This is a practical workshop interwoven with solid theory and colour science. It will involve shooting test material and taking it through various colour workflows.

Bringing your own laptop with the software you want to use is recomended.

There will also be high powered Mac machines with Da Vinci Resolve and FCPX to use and a number of cameras such as the Alexa LF, Alexa Mini, Varicam and URSA Mini Pro. Participants will also be given test footage to practice with and a collection of custom LUTs not available anywhere else.

DAY 1: LOOKS & LUTs

Participants will learn how to bring test footage into DaVinci Resolve, check and analyse it, modify existing LUTs, create custom looks and then export and use those as custom LUTs on set and for post production. This will include shooting test material on a variety of different cameras and taking it through each stage of the grading process.

DAY 2: WORKFLOW & IMAGE PROCESSING

How to understand what happens to your images between set and the colour grade, how to make sure that quality is maintained through the grading and finishing process and what this means for your creative options in the grade. It will also examine whoy and how to use ACES, CDLs, LUTs, PowerGrades and Printer Lights to assess and communicate bewteen different facilities ans steps in production and post production. Participants will develop a thorough understanging of RAW vs LOG, codecs, compression, colour sub-sampling and file formats and how they actually affect the image from camera through to deliverables.

At the end of this course you will be confident with using DaVinci Resolve to import images in any format, put footage onto a timeline, check the exposure and color, work with different formats and colorspaces, apply and experiment with looks, prepare and transcode showreel material and be ready to have detailed technical discussions with colorists, editors and producers and directors about any aspect of the colour pipeline.

This course assumes a professional level understanding of cinematography (including assistants & operators) and does not require any previous grading experience.

A light lunch will be provided and is included in the ticket price.