Movie Opening Blog Post #19

Movie Opening Blog Post #19

Coloring Of My Movie Opening- 

For this blog post I will be talking about the coloring of the clips/scenes in my movie opening, what my settings are, why I chose this coloring, and how it fits with my movie opening.

Im pretty sure that I mentioned the fact that my lighting in my movie opening is going to be dark in order for the scenes to look more eerie as my movie openings genre is a horror movie and within horror movies lighting is a MAJOR factor as it really makes up the horror within the horror movie because what would a horror movie be if it was made solely in a light environment and nothing else; It would be a horrible "horror movie." 

                        

The image that I have presented below won't be incorporated within my movie opening because its only an image that I've created. The reason that I created this image of multiple replicas of me and my movie openings name is because I want to publish my movie opening on YouTube for when I have completed my movie opening and I just had the idea of creating a thumbnail with it as well. The reason that I incorporated this picture in my blog post is because of the lighting, this picture gives a really good idea of what the lighting for my whole movie opening is going to be like since I used the same color setting for this image that Im going to use for the whole movie opening.

 

These 2 images that I've added are the EXACT color setting that I have been using for the development of my movie opening and I didn't watch any tutorial on how to get a specific lighting for horror movie using premier pro, all I did was use the strategy of trial and error. The "trial and error strategy" isn't really a "strategy," I just call it one because It took me at least 40-60 minutes to find the perfect lighting that I wanted for my movie opening and I had to go through a lot of trial and error with my lighting to get, in my opinion, the perfect lighting. These coloring settings perfectly fit my horror genre by creating a dark, scary setting which creeps the viewers out even more that they would be if I were to just incorporate my cameras normal lighting.

Usually I wouldn't use Curves to change the colors of my clips or scene but while I was playing with the color settings I thought, "why don't I check out the curves and see if they are any good," which they are. The only curve that I changed was the white curve because If I moved the white curve upwards It created a darker setting, which I liked, so I just kept it. However If I were to try and play with any of the RGB curves then it would make my movie opening look horrible because I DO NOT want my scenes to look more red, green, or blue, so that's why I only used the white curve.

The main things that I changed with the lighting section was the contrast, highlights, and whites, because these were the only things that created the lighting that I wanted, unlike exposure, shadows, and blacks, which made my movie opening clips incredibly dark to the point where not a lot was visible in my scenes.