Vexercise 5 Drops: Colo(u)r/Colo(u)r Grading/Lightbuilding

[nu_breed]

Hey everyone, as I mentioned in my last post it's time to drop Vexercise 5!

This exercise is focused on colour/colour grading (or color if you are, unlike me, from the US!)

So the brief here is to make a one minute video where you let color guide the logic and flow, either by selection or special effects.

Highly recommended: download a LUT and try using it!

There are many many LUT resources out there. Here are a few links you could try:

The 70 Best Free LUTs Hand-picked By A Colorist For Your Films
73 free LUTs for Premiere Pro
Free LUTs for Da Vinci
30 FREE Cinematic Luts | Color Grading | How to apply Luts in Adobe Premiere Pro
How to Install LUTS in Davinci Resolve
How To Install LUTs in Premiere Pro 2020 on MacOS super EASY!
How to Properly Install Luts in Premiere Pro for Windows & Mac Users

I haven't listed any vid examples here because there are numerous examples of vids that use colour in either of these ways (on the colour grading side there are too many YT vids to count that meet this brief!) But do please make suggestions in the comments!!!

Advanced: Lightbuilding

Lim talks about this in Demystifying Vidding. Produce a one minute vid where your guiding logic is lightbuilding. Try letting the flow and build of light guide your editing choices throughout.

Example vid: Lim's Expo (MCU)

Also some of these examples from Vexercises 2.0 may be useful!

Any questions, please ask!

Comments

[extrapenguin]

The Ghost's Eulogy, another Star Wars: The Old Republic vid! This time using my Imperial Agent and stuff from one of the expansions – Knights of the Fallen Empire ch 2 has a very nice built-in vignette, and fit well with the dark and moody theme I was going for. I did some minor color grading to make stuff match better, but mostly here what I wanted to do was transitions. My happy place is sharp cuts, but here I intentionally only had a few of them and did fade-ins and fade-outs most of the time. Also some fades-through-white as a transition, which I'd seen a few times and really wanted to try out. I like to think it adds to the effect.

[nu_breed]

Some nice in-built light-building here! And the transitions were an interesting way to emphasise it too :)