Comments on: Plot Device: A Film By Red Giant

By: Lane Shurtleff

Lane Shurtleff — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:24:00 +0000

I totally agree. I don’t understand this “washed out, no contrast and color grading” look that all the new movie(I don’t want to call them “film makers”, think is cool. I understand why they are trying to promote Red Giant’s abilities, but it’s like looking at lousy Instragram effects.

By: Jens Marklund

Jens Marklund — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:10:00 +0000

Mr Camensky, those presets looked terrible.

I beat you at table tennis, so you don’t get to have an opinion.

By: Rorschach Camensky

Rorschach Camensky — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:06:00 +0000

Jens, you have to realize that this video is made by Red Giant, a company that provides color grading software which gives filmmakers the ability to give their films “looks” (among other things).
Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Looks for example has a lot of presets which will give your films more diffusion, saturation and what not. You can obviously modify these presets and “make them your own” but this video is a superb example of demonstrating what kind of looks comes straight out of the box.
So, yeah, some things might not be completely awesome in every way, but if you find a look/preset you like it’s sooo much easier applying that look to your video and then modify it to perfection, instead of doing everything from scratch.

Just sayin’. Btw, I’ll see you at the office later.

By: Malcolm Debono

Malcolm Debono — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:41:00 +0000

Subtle in Hollywood films? LOL

By: Shannon Wimberly

Shannon Wimberly — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:01:00 +0000

ouch…

By: Jens Marklund

Jens Marklund — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:28:00 +0000

Is it just me, or does every short today have terrible color grading? Everything is green, and the skin tones are super red in the highlights. Or they tried to pull up some blue in the shadows, way too much, so it ruins it even more.

I mean, even Phillip Blooms Christmas shootout looked like shit (the btw footage). Feels like everyone is trying out their new software like a 13 year old, and goes crazy with the sliders. “Ooh it looks like film now”. No it doesn’t. Have you actually seen a big budget Hollywood film? Things are very subtle.