Creating Looks - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 419

Fig. 10.35 Original source
footage, image courtesy of
Artbeats.

Fig. 10.36 Tektronix
WVR7100 screengrab. Upper
left: RGB Parade. Upper
right: vectorscope. Lower
right: composite waveform.
Lower left: RGB Parade
zoomed in 5x to blacks.

Opens are usually high color. Like if you've seen the open for Survivor .
Really bold, wild colors.

- Janet Falcon, Shooters Post

She considers the request, then dives in to the grade. “Then you'd go for
something a lot more contrasty and a lot more pushed and forced. Depend-
ing on what other things are in there, you may stick with normal color.
I just want to save it along the way so I can play with a few different things.
Every time I get something, I save it. I use my DaVinci notepads a lot. Maybe
go with a blue-black if you want not 'off' colors, but not normal colors.”
She continues, “Opens are usually high color. Like if you've seen the
open for Survivor . Really bold, wild colors. You could go something more
like that” ( Figures 10.37 - 10.40 ) .