Color Grading

We know that color correction is one of the important stages of post production, has the ability to take the viewer to any feeling, depending on the combinations in the colors and arrangements in the lights and shadows that are made.

It is important not to confuse color correction and color grading

The color correction is the modification of the clips and the information in them, the rolling of all the individual shots so that they look like the same movie footage, this makes the whites look white, the blacks look black, and after that everything looks more homogeneous.

In the grading we take what has been done in the correction of color and take it one step further, altering the footage for aesthetic and communicative purposes.

Once everything is seen as desired and uniform in the video, it has the ability to further improve the image to achieve a much more cinematic look.

It is definitely an art form of its own. With this we manage to facilitate the immersion of the spectator and the ease of transporting them to the moods that we want to transmit.

These two techniques together achieve the unbearable, you can convert night into day and day into night. You can manage to transport your scenes to other worlds. The truth is that it is recommended to be scandalous with the colors, but rather to take care of the detail.

Even a very subtle color can make a difference.
The type of correction is definitely relative and depends on the intention that you want to give to the film.

In the past the grading processes were limited to large studies and too expensive,

Nowadays, the tools to make them available to everyone are very different. such as DaVinci Resolve, which is a software widely used at professional levels and has a version that can be downloaded and used without problems.

for here I leave the link of the program, but I warn you that it really uses a lot of resources in processing, also I leave here the requirements of the program.

you need a i7 whit GPU

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/media

I particularly like the correction of color and color grading because it is the magic that fuels any movie footage, if you want to enter this world and dare to color your clips, the practice is the key so that you can achieve it successfully.

All the images that I use in this article, are from the new proyect SANJUAN video clip called "Tocame" that will come out very soon on youtube and the digital platforms of musical promotion, their social networks on Instagram are @sanjuanmusic, and my instagram is @ghettocaribe if they want to do any query, about editing, production, address or whatever.