About the Course
An introduction to Colour Correction & Colour Grading using Davinci Resolve. Understanding the colour correction workflow to correct the dark and light values and colour balance issues. Understanding and using scopes. Balancing and matching shots to create continuity and cohesion. Colour Grading to create visual aesthetics, mood, tone and style in a project.
The course will explore the Davinci Resolve workspace, exploring how to navigate the interface. We’ll look at how to export a film from Premiere Pro and import into Davinci Resolve using an XML. The course will explore Davinci’s unique node system to organise corrections, grades and adjustments.
We’ll look at Davinci’s basic controls – Primary Colour Wheels, Colour Bars and Log Wheels, and Curves. We’ll look at the Video scopes and how to use them to analyse Luma, Colour and Saturation. We’ll look at Primary grading, correcting Luma, normalising shots and balancing colours. Then we’ll look at Balancing and shot matching to create cohesion and continuity in the footage. We’ll explore using Power Windows, Qualifiers, keys and Keyframes for Secondary Grades. Finally, we’ll look at project export and delivery.
What Will I Learn?
- Understanding Colour Correction and Colour grading, and why we Colour Grade.
- Basic colour theory and how colour in film impacts audience perception and emotional engagement.
- Why do we colour grade
- Exploring the Interface
- Exporting film from Premiere
- Importing Footage with XML & flattened Q.T.
- Exploring Nodes, parallel nodes vs serial nodes
- Log & Raw
- Preparing Media for Grading; Exporting and Importing into Da Vinci Resolve • Primary controls
- Learning to use video scopes – Luma Wavescope, RGB parade; Vectorscope • First correction – changing levels
- Second Correction – Changing Colour
- Balancing and Matching shots
- Giving shots a mood, tone or feeling
- Power windows and Qualifiers
- Tracking with power windows
- Using Keys, Trackers and Keyframes
About the Tutor
Bex Goff is a multi-skilled Writer/Director, a BBC-trained Studio Director and self-shooting filmmaker. She is a Senior Technical Instructor in Filmmaking & Media at University West of England, Bristol.
Her professional experience has encompassed working as a studio director across ITN news programmes and BBC Regional News and Current Affairs. As a freelance filmmaker she worked on entertainment programmes including ‘Exclusive’ & ‘The Movie Chart Show’ for Channel 5/Mentorn and British Airways inflight Entertainment. On a sabbatical from the BBC, Bex worked for the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) in Barbados, and as a Producer and Director for a TV sports and events company in Trinidad & Tobago.
She has produced and directed music videos, corporate films, promos and short documentaries, and has also written & directed several short fiction films including most recently Galahad Jones, a 30 minute comedy drama starring Anton Lesser (Game of Thrones, Endeavour, Andor) and Louis Emerick (Brookside, Layer Cake).
She has worked as a freelance director on several theatre productions, including at the Basement Theatre at Bristol Old Vic, Stepping Out Theatre Company and Kuumba Theatre. Bex also has experience of working as a 3rd Assistant Director on Film & TV drama productions, including Casualty and Eastenders for BBC Television, and as a runner on several film & TV drama productions. Bex’ Training includes BBC Studio Director’s Course at TV Centre, & Elstree, Borehamwood, Herts; The NFTS Director’s Series, Beaconsfield; High End TV Drama Directing, NFTS Leeds; Raindance Director’s Diploma, and Masters/Diploma Film Directing Course, Leeds Metropolitan University.
Her main skill areas are Directing & Working with Actors; Multi-camera studio directing (live and recorded programmes); Editing (Drama); Colour Grading and Scriptwriting.
Her hobbies include Writing, Illustration and Sculpting Dragons!
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