Colour correcting and Grading my footage in Apple's Colour

In order to make my video have the desired look and to stylise it, I knew I had to use a sophisticated bit of software to colour correct my footage. The software I used came with my Final Cut Studio package. It is called Colour and is designed to colour grade and correct.

These are the step I took to get the final colour:

This is the original look of the raw footage

 

Using the tools available, I could correct the yellows of the mid tones to a much whiter colour

I decided to use one of the music videos I researched to colour grade from

The main focus of my task was to stylise the backrgound but keep the skin tones right. Letting the skin go blue or green would ruin the grade.

I had to keep checking the scopes to see if any colours were blown out or not vibrant enough

I moved onto the next clip due to the better raw colours, used the grade from my last and adjusted it until the skin tone was pink-ish and the background was blue.