Research- Practising With Colour Grading And Warp Stabiliser

 My aim for my music video is to try and achieve the professional look that we all very much see in todays music videos. Using premier pro is one way of doing that how ever that is on the editing side. There're also functions i have to set on the camera to make sure that i achieve the best aperture and exposure also setting the correct frame rates.

I wanted to have a practise run with what i had discovered and this is what i created with the process all included below.
this is picture on the right shows the  process of the colour grading. There are about to main types of colour grading that you can find on premier pro and these are

• Three Way Colour Corrector 
• RGB curves 

These are the main two that i used. There are others that i could use such as ND filters but the two mentions do the job as good. AS you can see here i have used the RGB Curves as an example. RGB just basically stands for Red Green and Blue that why you can see the Red Green and Blue curves in both the above picture and the bottom one here. these enable you to play around with the lighting and look of your video. You can easily set a mood with these curve. Like presented in the picture above you can see that it shows a different mood as opposed to the picture below here. To me the above picture shows a more cheerful song because of the use of the lighting its not as dark and gloomy as the picture below. this is all in the same video too, which mean that  it is very easy to contrast the mood of a song and the lighting you set which will contradict the feel of the song. 

These are the three way colour corrector. the give the same effect as the RBG curves but find them to be much easier to use. They give you a section of Shadows, Midtones and Highlights.  With these they focus directly on the section they are indicated. For my case i water to make a gloomy effect so i drew myself more towards the make the dark colours darker and the light colours a little dark too. I took the blue hue and made it darker and took the highlights and made them a bit warm as opposed to being bright.

Below are just examples of the sort of moods you can set with the There Way Colour Corrector

Warp Stabiliser

I was in class today practising with the Hague mini motion cam glider and i found it really difficult to find the correct stabilisation. This made me panic as i wanted to have a smooth motion in my music video. i seen a video on youtube that showed me plugin on premier pro that enable you to stabilise your video even if you didn't have a glider or a tripod. To find the warp stabiliser you have to go on the effects panel and typer warp stabiliser in and them click and grab it onto you footage. from there as shin in the two pictures below it will analyse your footage and then it will attempt to stabilise it.

depending on your preference you can change how smooth you want the stabilisation to be and also you can have no motion at all. This will give an effect that the camera was placed on a tripod.

Negatives
the negatives are more on the warp stabiliser as if there is too much smoothness it can make a bouncy effect at time in a the video. It makes it seem like its zooming in and out. It does not good at times however if that is not you aim then it can seriously cause harm to your video.

what i suggest and what i am going to do myself is to get a glider which will make my recording smoother. Then add the warp stabiliser effect onto it. That way it wont need to stabilise as much.

Videos i used to help







My Video Practise 
I will put both before and after videos to show the difference between the two

This is Brian he is a singer naturally and he picked the song and what i like is the emotion and passion he gives in the video. It was a one take video with no cuts, specifically focusing on playing around with autofocus and the smoothness on the video.

Before 

After 



Pictures of shoot