Matching Shots - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 378

Matching Scene to Scene
This footage is from a project I edited. In that project these two shots—
the interview scene of the woman ( Figure 9.33 ) and the B-roll shot of
her with her son ( Figure 9.31 ) —were not cutting together well. I tried
trimming the shots one way and then the other with no success. Finally,
I decided to color correct the shots so that they'd match better. That was
the solution. Figuring that our panel of experts could match them better
than I could, I included the scenes in the sessions for the topic.
Bob Sliga takes the first crack at matching the scenes. He starts by
correcting the interview scene first. “I'm bringing the whites down out of
clip. Then I balanced my blacks and brought them down a bit, which got
me to here ( Figure 9.35 ). I forgot I even did it. Sometimes it seems like
my hands think for me.”
Fig. 9.31 Source footage
of B-roll shot. Image cour-
tesy Exclaim Entertainment.
Fig. 9.32 Tektronix
WVR7100 screengrab. Upper
left: RGB Parade. Upper
right: composite waveform.
Lower right: vectorscope.
Lower left: RGB Parade
zoomed in the show black
balance.