Doing a movie for school, need some help!!!

[1-pippin]

so im doing a western movie for school, its our final.

im having some trouble getting a western look, im filming with a vx2100, i also have a vx1000 i could use if that would look better.

anyway i white balanced to get a kinda warm brownish color, turned the sharpness and color down a little and it still isnt how i want, anyone have any tips to get a western movie feel?

 

[[~_~]]

3-way-color-correction:

crush blacks

warm colors

raise contrast a bit

make the color tint towards purple a TINY bit

thats usually how I do it. I kind of got the 300 look except i did the colors in-camera

 

[skiierman]

^ Listen to him. He's a guru with a camera.

 

[[~_~]]

Here is a quick grab of these settings:

NOTE: I didnt warm them up very much like I explained though, I was going for a semi-cold look

oh and I was shooting this for a school project too!

 

[ride-rider]

you could allso add that old movie style to it, you no where the lines are going through the screen.

 

[[~_~]]

yeah but that looks shitty like something you would see on a PBS special or the intro to Show & Prove.

for the old movie style, what I do is:

add slight vignette

very high contrast

add noise (grain)

add a flicker in cc by changing the white levels slightly every 2 frames

warm colors

add slight dust & mold (I use magic bullet for this)

 

[xnick11]

Your sharpness on your camera should always be turned down,its really not needed.

 

[xnick11]

I feel really sad that I use vegas and cant get those good of colors,im really considering switching over to premiere.

 

[Galin]

as far as colors go i dont think your editing system has much to do with it, other than maybe more extensive color correcting, but a lot of the color quality comes from what the camera itself captures. He shoots with a dvx100 which gets amazing colors so that's probably why they look so good. Although im sure the color correcting helped as well, its mainly the camera.

 

[[~_~]]

bingo. Color Correction is a HUGE factor (I color correct every single clip in my edits, and 3-way-cc is pretty basic) but your biggest weapon against bad colors is filming good colors in the first place.

 

[Geoff.]

do you have a clip of this?

 

[tha_CF]

yea, and vegas has a real good color correction control, that i think is much easier then premier

 

[xnick11]

I fell that Vegas is really unorganized when it comes to the plug-ins and such,im going to try premiere and AE right now and see how I like it compared to Vegas.

 

[[~_~]]

watch Lovely, Tahoe. Somewhere in there, this effect is applied to a shot of Paul Stover hitting a flat box.

 

[Mattman]

good stuff