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]

I'm probably going to do the color grading thing (in kdenlive, since blender doesn't handle LUTs, oops), but do you have any other example vids for lightbuilding? It looks interesting but I don't think I quite got the concept.

[nu_breed]

Yeah it’s a bit of a tricky one to explain! Some of these examples from Vexercises 2.0 may be helpful to you:

https://vexercises.dreamwidth.org/15770.html#comments

[extrapenguin]

Having watched all those, I'm still as confused as ever. /o\ Unless it's about motion/shape matching for light/light sources, and then subverting matchy expectations? I suspect the reason this is so hard for me is that my brain just doesn't natively think about stuff in this manner.