WESTERN COLORGRADING!!!!

Color is an additional process color correction, which makes your images look exactly like they appear in real life. Working as the base to later create a mood through a different color palette. Color grading involves the alteration of several variables, such as saturation, hue, lum, and more. As a base for our raw footage we changed a little bit the white balance giving the footage a more warm look. 

Normally If one wants to play a lot with colorgrading one would record in log. A format that has really unsaturated and gray colors. But stores a lot of information allowing to play with them in post po. We pre altered the footage a little bit just for efficienty matters. 

Our rae footage still sticks to the the basic description of the colors of wester films. Vibrancy is probably the thing that stands out the most. The clothing which has strong colors is highlighted by the vibrancy on the overall colorgrading. The vibrancy also is seen in natural environments through a bright blue sky and vegetable life like trees, and grass process a really strong color, that can take yellowish colors due to the stereotypicall yellowish colorgrading. Skin color is also affected by this, some highlights are a little bit orange in several western films. Our films thanks to the alterarion plus shooting with natural sunlight really has this highlishts present. 

Strange way of life (Pedro almodovar)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Sergio Leone)

Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)

A common look for this films is the famouse orange and teal. The orange is present in the highlights and a blue/green color is present in the shadows. We already have the orange due to the white balance and the sunlight. For the shadows we would have to lower the blacks and shadows as they are a little washed out due to the strong sunlight. But after this we can apply the teal color to them. 

Filmakking as any other art has a lot of ways of achieving the same goal. One may be faster than the other. One may have a to some extent better outcome, but it is important to learn from every path. As these paths can be connected to enhace evolution of one's creations. 

Colorgrading low key scares me sometimes, as I fear not to match colors in each scene, so I really try to learn every time I can. 

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Eziedo, Israel . “ How to Get Cinematic Old Western Film Look | Davinci Resolve 16 Tutoria.” Youtu.be, 8 May 2020, youtu.be/32EF2roSNXE?si=7MIt5QO5_sesQJ-P. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.