How is Robbie Carman’s Color training DvD, (from Lynda.com) for intermediate to advanced Color skills?

Without really knowing what this Lynda.com Color training is about (I’ve seen a bit, but I preferred Ripple Training and went with that) – I’d say you won’t learn much from it.

fxphd.com had a course last semester – “Grading with Color”. It was aimed for the Apple Color user, and as I understood, it would take it to “the next level” as in really getting into grading and building a look, not just color adjustment and color matching clips.

Too bad they don’t have it this semester – I’d go with that one (and the others..) any day.

I don’t know how this relates to “Forum rules, suggestions and feedback”, but, I took that course at FXPHD and ejoyed it immensely.

A breakdown of what was taught”

class 1: Off and running. The approach for this course is to combine color theory and how it has an affect on how we manipulate color. Each class will discuss how we take an approach to color correction in a creative, artistic way to not only create a beautiful image, but address our audience and their emotional perception of these images. Class one hops right into this with the discussion and re-creation of the DUOTONE.

class 2: Associating color with emotion The theory that color and the effect we choose to put on our color correction is directly associated with the subconscious. We will look at traditional associations with color in movies and advertising. We will take Soderberg’s film “Traffic” and re-create this “color associated with a certain place/emotion.”

class 3: Taking the previous class another step. We’ll look at Schinder’s list and the effective use of isolated color to create an emotion. In this film, the girl in the red coat became a color representation of the hundreds of thousands of those killed in WW2. We will focus on keying, and using this concept of focusing in on one color to provoke our audience to associate that image with an overall theme.

class 4: Color through the ages As we look back in time, we can see that each era has a specific look, represented in color to signify that period in time. If we are to prompt our audience to believing they are watching something shot in a certain era in time, we can push this thought process along via color correction. We will take the same piece of film, and manipulate it in color to emulate different points in time.

class 5: Expressionist theories of color and our use of these ideas today The famous artist Jean-Michel Basquiat used color to force our eyes to a certain area on his canvas. He used saturation to create a sense of depth and emotion. We will take this principle and focus on how we can manipulate an image to force our viewer to a specific area of our frame—by use of depth perception, saturation, and effects tools.

class 6: The Autochrome.. color from the beginning In 1906, Auguste and Louis Lumiere of France created the autochrome, film’s earliest stages of color imagery. Using an additive method of separating an image into separate elements of red, green and blue by the use of potato starch filtering, this beautiful and unique image is worthy of replicating – even today. We will look at a current commercial which shares this imagery, and create our own using film shot today. To appreciate the contemporary use of high end color effects, it is great to step back and take note of these early processes which not only set the path for where we are at this time in color correction, but are relevant even by today’s standards, and worthy of replication.

class 7: MTV awaits This class will have us pushing the envelope as we look into creating funky, fun, high end looks for a music video. Ramp it up! (The “color theory” in this has yet to be determined….. it’s just really fun!)

class 8: Continuity is the key This class will look into the issue of continuity—a key element in color correcting anything from commercial to feature films. Continuity ties your piece together, creates a cohesive look as well as commits the viewer to following the story line no matter what twists the environment, lighting, or elements of post production may hand to us.

class 9: Lighting and its effect on our viewer Lighting. It sets the tone, determines our feelings and prompts a reaction. The way we light a scene convinces our audience of what they are watching and how we want them to feel. We will discuss many aspects about lighting. From how to re-light a scene with issues to simply creating dramatic lighting for enhancement.

class 10: Copy the masters A fun way to end the course, this class will have us taking the same piece of film (or two or three) and replicating the looks of famous directors and cinematographers.

It was really good, we had HQ Pro-res encoded RED footage in this class and the Da Vinci watch n learn class.

They’re hoping to get the instructor back for the July term. Hopefully there’ll be a new Color version by then.

Ola, how about you do some screencapture tutorials? I watched your clip on youtube the other day for the wacom intuos. I have to say you grade super speedy :)

Hehe, we’ll see about that. Even though I feel comfortable about using Color, I’m no master at it. So I don’t really know how this would apply for higher end grading than I’m doing.

However, the speed I’m grading in is mainly due to the ShuttlePRO and a tablet. Grading with a mouse and using the keyboard is sooooo slow! Can’t imagine how fast it would be to have a proper panel with balls and wheels.

IF I’m gonna do something, it would be after I get back from Spain. I travel this weekend and is home again in july.

I’ve seen the Robbie Carman’s Color training DvD and i think it’s a great DVD, but it’s not for the “advanced color skills”... it’s really usefull to start using color and to know the interface and the possibilities color offers… you can find a lot of good informations but i think it’s for basic to intermediate color skills…

i’ve studied a really good book too, it’s not about Apple Color software but it’s about color correction and color grading… it’s called “color correction for video” by Hullfish Fowler…

Pode
info@marcopoderi.net