Colour Correction
As part of our course we were taught how to use colour correction tools on Final Cut.
We were given various pieces of footage to practice on with several problems that needed to be corrected on the footage.
One of the problems was how to correct white balance; white balance being the correct toning for objects and people taking into account different heat of the light sources. For example the camera records natural light (sun light) as being orange hot and indoor lighting as blue hot.
Another problem is super white (super white being where the light goes above 100% white and flares). We correct this by opening up the colour correction windows and choosing the waveform window, which then gives us a graphical representation of the whites and blacks in the shot, showing us how much super white there is and therefore allows us to bring the super white back down to 100% white. In one scene super white occurred when the actor turned on a lamp in a darkly lit room causing the lamp bulb to be flared out.
By learning about these issues at the start it made us aware of the potential problems and equipped us with the knowledge to militate against them whilst filming to limit or reduce the effects of incorrect white balance and over or under exposing our shots.
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