oh right... i actually have to do work

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Its not funny. I am tired. 

I have so much make-up work from all the time I missed, but here I am, writing a blog for you, England. 

Let's go over editing. 

For the past week or so, I've been tinkering with the perfect sequence for the film opening. With the absence of a few shots, I think I've got it. However, color grading is a different beast.

Before 

After

Basic settings

Because the sun refused to go away, a lot of our shots were more blown out than Lincoln at Ford's theater (are Lincoln jokes cool now? idk). I had to contrast most of the shots to hell, and play with shadows and highlights until I got a pretty cool look. But these shots were the easier ones to color. 

Before

After

For these shots, I again had to contrast it a lot, but I also had to make the shadows blue because the red vest was making the shot look much more red than it should've been. It took me a while to get the look right, and I'm still trying to fix some of the aspects of it. 

The hardest part of the whole color grading process was matching the scenes as the lighting changed.

Still from the first half of the sequence

Still from the back half

The lighting changed a lot between these scenes, and it took a lot of curves and adjustments to make them look similar. While they don't perfectly match, they both have the same red hue that we're looking for. In other words, it gets the job done.