Colour grading

We new that our music video didn't quite look right for some reason and we decided it was because the colouring wasn't right and the scenes then seemed not to fit together as one music video. The powder paint fight was too grainy and didn't have enough contrast or brightness to it. The studio scene was just too dull and didn't fit with the powder paint fight scene, and the smashing plates and lip syncing needed their colour changing slightly and needed to be brightened up. We used the program 'color' to do the colour grading with which, when we first went onto it, we didn't have a clue what we were doing. We played around for a bit and eventually figured out how to do it but we had to do it clip by clip and with our music video having a lot of choppy shots in it, it meant being patient and taking time over it. We changed the colours, the contrast and the lighting and we then sent the sequence back to Final Cut Pro so that we could edit more if we needed too. The colour grading was what made the footage look like one whole music video and what made everything fit together in the end. This whole process was very successful.