Cinematography Colour Grading Class Notes

The process of colour-grading is traditionally considered to be a part of post-production but in the digital age there is much greater scope for it to be conceptualized as an extension of cinematography – a continuance of ‘image aquistion’. One one hand on-set colour grading and testing is becoming a common part of the shooting process and, at the other end, the influx of RAW shooting such as RED changes the DoP’s process to move a host of camera-based aspects into the computer environment.

Above all Cinematography in the digital age is much more than just the operation of the camera. Below are the class notes from the T2 Cine class last week on colour grading and it coveres both technical elements and a cocneptual taxonomy for how to interpret and apply colour in creative interpretation.

T2C Colour Grading Class Notes (PDF)