Major Project: Post - Production: Interview Colour Grade 2

What other Interview Colour Grading Methods are there?

As mentioned in my previous colour grading blog post, I was hoping to find another way to make the interviews stand out different compared to the actuality - purely as it seems conventional and it helps to create a different perceptive, rather than just watching all actuality. Nonetheless, my research led me to a YouTuber called TPV Productions, who creates numerous amounts of Premiere tutorial videos online. After watching his video, I found a couple of methods which interested me the most and seemed to be the most efficient.

Below is a link to the video:

Secondary Color Correciton (Teeth Whitening)

So the first section of the video explains how to enhance teeth colour, to make them whiter if necessary. This is done by using the secondary colour correction tool, which is found underneath the 'Three Colour Correction' tool that I've discussed in some previous post-production blog posts.

Moving on, the way this tool works is by creating a mask that only shows the colour that you can pick. So for this case, I used the colour temperature tool to highlight the colour of in this case Maddie's teeth, as I wanted to make them pearly white. Once selected and the mask is on, the mask only showed only the colours of Maddie's teeth, as you can see below:

Of course, the idea is to enhance the colour of Maddie's teeth, rather than the rest of the white parts which have shown up. This is where the video then explains that you need to adjust the saturation and luma controls as shown below, to enable you to alter the range so it only focuses on Maddie's teeth.

However, after spending a while altering these levels, it proved merely impossible to focus just on her teeth - the colour of her teeth must match exactly the same to parts of her jumper, which is why the mask is showing both sections. However, as I was only experimenting, I wanted to see whether this could make teeth whiter or not. I then altered the RGB curves by balancing the red and blues (as suggested in the video) however I didn't have any luck, which you can see in the images below:

Original image

Edited Image - altering the curves caused the teeth to
 go brown - the opposite of what I wanted

Brightness/Contrast

Moving on, the video then introduces another basic tool - 'Brightness/Contrast'. As it says from it's name, the tool simply enables you to change the master brightenss and contrast settings - this worked reasonably well with this scene in particular, as I've already altered the white and black balances using the 'Lumetri Colour' tool (as explained in previous post-production blog posts), making the contrast between the colours seeming more cinematic - which is what I am aiming to do. 

The Brightness/Contrast tool

Although there isn't a major difference, below is the original compared to the edited image.

Edited Image

Original Image, with the Lumetri effects on

Conclusion

To generalise, I feel this video didn't help me like I thought it may've. Despite the brightness/contrast tool being useful to know, it seems difficult to perfect the teeth whitening tool, and the other tools the video explains didn't provide the information which I was hoping for. For example, it tells you how to alter the master saturation to make the image seem cooler, which is the opposite to what I was hoping for, as I'm aiming to create a cinematic feel. Nonetheless, I will continue to research to see which other methods there may be for generating this cinematic feel.