Film and television color matching method

Six methods of film and television color matching

Film and television works are real emotions flowing on the screen. If you want to be a qualified colorist, you must master the rules of film and television color matching. I've arranged six color matching methods for you, hoping to help you!

1. Get familiar with the movie script.

Not limited to color matching, this problem is often ignored by many later film and television workers. Being familiar with the script is really more important than many people think.

You know, the real movie script is written for the screen, that is, a good script should have a sense of picture. The color in the image also participates in the narrative. Before color mixing, we must first understand the story told by the script.

Let's take the TV series "Fill Sichuan" with the theme of immigration as an example. This scene is about a group of people in a small farmhouse discussing the money needed to build a house and buy seeds. At first, from the analysis of the picture, the farmhouse yard is filled with smoke, which is a leisurely and quiet pastoral picture, so we often instinctively turn it into a warm color. However, through the script, I learned that Sichuan immigrants are located in a vast land, sparsely populated and wild rural areas, so I made some adjustments and turned the picture into a green tone to reflect the environment in remote rural areas. Later, through the interpretation of the story before and after, it is found that although this scene is full of hope and joy, the next part is that someone comes to get back the gold he accidentally got. They immigrated here from a long distance, with a vast land and few people, and poor houses. Finally, they had the money to build houses from the sea, but some people came here to ask for money. According to the content of the script, the picture was changed into a blue tone with a sad color.

It can be seen that the judgment of the picture at the beginning is one-sided and subjective. Only by reading through the script and understanding the context can we have a comprehensive overall grasp of the picture. Therefore, to become a qualified colorist, the first task must be to read the script well.

Step 2: Adjust your mood.

Film and television works are real emotions flowing on the screen, and film and television works are also formed by the accumulation of countless emotions. Good works of art are often created by the creator in a good state full of passion; And a good film, the emotional state of its creation determines the artistic height of the film. Similarly, in the film and television color matching work, the emotional state of the colorist should also be able to reach the passionate state of film creation. With a full understanding of the script, in the adjusted state, emotional voices can be generated, and then color processing can better reach the technical level and artistic height of the film.

However, human visual and emotional factors have greater differences in color recognition. This requires us to adjust our mood before color matching. If we are in a bad mood or have some small negative emotions, then don't do color matching in front of us. Many people may think this is an exaggeration. In fact, if you do color matching with emotion, your color acuity and judgment will be seriously reduced or deviated. Even if I finished my work, when I looked back the next day, it was a mess and I had to start all over again.

Three. conceive

Whether it is abstract or concrete works, color enriches the spatial form with more significance than the natural state. As a colorist, we should imagine the image color in the process of creation, and finally form a general concept and ideological system that runs through the content and form of the whole work.

In the movie Take Me Away, the little girl A Gui is color blind, so the world in her eyes must be another color. In the film, Agua's perspectives are not changed to different colors, but when Agui's father gives Agui colored glasses, Agui shows another world with different colors.

In the process of color matching, we can properly handle colors and properly express the form and content of colors; You can also make bold innovations in colors, carry out new treatments and give full play to your imagination. However, it is difficult to accurately grasp the relationship between moderate treatment and bold innovation. Only the feelings of people can touch people's hearts.

Four. Cooperation with directors, photographers and lighting engineers

A hero, three gangs, and a strong colorist, without the good cooperation of early directors, photographers and lighting engineers, you will begin to doubt life!

In the process of film and television production, the director creatively reflects the image described in the movie script as a screen image by using the special means of film performance; Photographers capture as much information as possible, involving the use of light, action, picture composition and photography skills, and capture the color depth with as high dynamic brightness as possible through the lens, which provides the greatest possibility for post-production; The lighting engineer assists the photographer to complete the modeling of the film and complete the technical work and artistic tasks of film photography.

In the process of color matching, the colorist should communicate with the director after being familiar with the script, understand the director's creative intention and put into the picture. In addition, we should also communicate with photographers about composition ideas and lighting engineers about light treatment.

Sometimes, we can be creative in the light and shadow processing of the picture. There is a scene in the TV series Guanchuan in which Xiao Wenru goes to a pawnshop to pawn jewelry to treat his mother. This picture is very peaceful, lacking light and shadow level and drama. The pawnbroker acted as a kind and warm-hearted person to save people in from the mire. Because there was a light behind Xiao Wenru when shooting, Xiao Wenru appeared brighter in the picture, so we reduced the brightness of the foreground. We can see that the light source in the picture is a window. In order to show the nobility of pawnbrokers, we will increase the brightness of the boss's face. In addition, we add nodes to simulate the effect of light entering the house outside the window. After careful adjustment of several nodes, we finally got the desired image effect.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) revision and review

After the color mixing work is finished, we often go out to have a rest every other day and then go back. Don't think that once the color matching is completed, the work is over. Because of working in the workshop for a long time, the sensitivity to color will become dull, and the color matching work will be biased for a long time. Often after working for a period of time, you need to look at the scenery outside the window or have a rest. Although the whole color matching work has been completed, when you go to sleep or go out for a while and come back, you will find that the colors of many lenses are not what you originally wanted, some may be overexposed, some may be too saturated and so on. At this time, we need to make some adjustments.

Guide to skin color treatment of intransitive verbs

In film and television production, both lighting and photography are trying to do one thing, that is, how to better restore the skin color of characters in the real environment. In order to solve this problem, the film manufacturers have conducted special technical research and produced high-quality films that can restore the skin to the greatest extent under different lighting conditions. The makeup artist tries his best to make up for the defects of the character's skin color itself; The photographer adjusts the camera to the best state to obtain the skin image of the person; In the color matching work in the later stage of film and television, the colorist acts as a "digital makeup artist" to adjust the skin color of the characters to the most perfect state.

However, for some difficult skin, such as a metal gray face full of beard, if the image needs softer skin, which makeup can't do at all, it can be repaired and compensated in the later color matching work.

The Treatment of Characters' Skin Color in Twilight

Sometimes, color matching can completely replace makeup work. In the era of ultra-high definition, makeup tends to be accurate and true, and this work no longer depends on makeup pigments through color matching. In Twilight, Edward's family met the vampire Lauren while playing baseball. In order to show that vampire Lauren once smelled human Bella, the camera gave Lauren a close-up of her eyes, and at this time, Lauren's eyes changed from normal black and white to blood red. It was impossible to achieve this artistic effect through performance, but only through complicated makeup. Nowadays, color matching makes this job easier. We can adjust Lauren's eyes to any color through the color matching in the later films.

The effect of replacing makeup with color matching in twilight

The effect we achieved through makeup in the past, with the arrival of the ultra-high-definition era, there are certain risks. A little carelessness will give people a false feeling, thus keeping the audience out of the film without plot. In this respect, film and television color matching can completely replace makeup work, so as to achieve realistic visual effects, and color matching work can even easily and vividly express the color change process; This process is even more difficult to achieve in makeup work, which is both energy-consuming and time-consuming.

In A Chinese Odyssey, the color of Bai Jingjing's hands and lips still depends more on makeup, because makeup is easy to wear.

Color matching work will also make up for the technical deficiencies brought by actors' performances. For example, in a scene, the actor needs to use a long lens to change from a normal face to a blushing face, and then the plot turns sharply and the actor's face turns white. This effect requires actors to perform very difficult, and with the help of makeup, they can only shoot the lens alone. But the color matching work makes the performance easier, and the actors only need to show the corresponding emotions. In the later color matching work, we can easily get the desired artistic effect through color matching.

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