The document describes the filming experiments of setting up shots with LED and reflector lighting to light the actor's face, and initially recording with the camera's standard color profile before changing it to "vision color" by adjusting sharpness, contrast, saturation, and color tone to give a flatter look. Footage was then stabilized in After Effects by tracking the actor's eye, though this resulted in some jitter during blinks. The footage was then color graded in Premiere by adjusting sliders like temperature, exposure, and contrast to make it look more professional. While tracking can stabilize rough shots, it was reflected that this forces removing useful footage areas and is unnatural, so a steady cam would be preferred to get steady shots

1. Experiments
Your Name

2. Process
My first process on the filming
experiments I started with setting
up my shot with my actor sat down
with an LED light and a reflector
lighting up the left of his face. I
then started recording my actor
with the cameras standard colour
profile however the colours
seemed too strong which will make
it difficult to colour grade. I
uploaded this footage to premier
which will show my process more
clearly. To fix this I went onto the
colour profile settings and changed
it to vision colour. In order to make
it vison colour i changed the
Sharpness to +1,Contrast to -4,
Saturation to -2, Color Tone to -1.
doing gave it a flat plain look which
gives a good canvas to colour grade.

3. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
– I definitely will be using the LED light for the interior shots as
sometimes the home lights can be terrible and badly composed. The
LED light would help me be more flexible with the style and colour
grading.
– I will also be setting the camera to vision colour as it will help me
colour grade more easier allowing me to make the scenes more
cinematic.
– I may not be able to use the reflector as its very large and hard to
handle. I doubt it would be that effective especially with just a small
LED light

4. Process
• For the next part of my footage I had to
try and neaten it up as it was fairly shaky.
• I firstly asked a peer to show how to to
track a particular area in order to make
the shot steady however he told me that
premier doesn't have the capability. I then
looked online to find ways to steady my
footage and found that after effect has
the perfect track tool. With the track tool i
was able to track I certain area in the
footage and it will stabilize it. For the
video I have I decided track my actors eye.
After the eye was stabilized I had to work
my way around the edge of the footage
moving around. To fix this I zoomed in
getting rid of most of the footage. With
tracking the eye, the shot did jitter
whenever he blinked. When I finally was
happy with what I got, I loaded it into
premier.
• With the footage looking flat, it was time
to start colour grading. To colour grade I
clicked onto the effects control which
opened basic correction, creative, colour
wheels. I went through every slider such
as temperature, exposure, contrast etc.
for this shot I only tried to make it feel as
professional as possible a possible.

5. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
– The after effect tracking can be very useful if I
ever have a rough shot which I will try my best not
to have. I will mostly stray away from using the
tracking as it forces me to get rid of useful areas of
the footage, ruining my composition. To get a
steady shot I would rather use a steady cam
making it look more natural.

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7. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?

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9. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?

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11. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?