$150 PRIZE FOR: BEST EDITED VIDEO COMPETITION

[jameslarkin]

$150 for who ever creates the best edit / grading on the footage that the forum provides

please watch the following video to find out more
http://youtu.be/TGySYTCnkP0





Dead line for suggestions on competition (forum posts; ideas for competition, rule ideas, submission ideas)
24th December 2014

Final competition rules will be compiled and posted by me
26th dec 2014

Dead line to submit footage to me; for forum to edit
2nd Jan 2015

Submitted video/DNG series to be made available by me
3rd jan 2015

Dead line to have your final edits in by (competition video)
7th Jan 2015 ...this date may be extended



the following will be updated
Rules:

don'ts
1.don't submit nudity, partial nudity is fine
2.no acts of real violence, acted out is fine

do's
1.do keep footage scaled to 3.5k/4k
2.do please offer video in dng if you can
3.do film your footage in a flat picture style
4.do interpret hollywood colour how ever you like how i do like colour in the following trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xD9uTlh5hI most of the scenes, there is one exception where its very turquoise
5.do for your final work if you win provide some information / tutorial / screen capture of your work flow

[Levas]

Your footage will be shot in raw right 
Because you're talking about flat pictures styles and stuff, but picture styles don't influence raw footage 

And to get the grading style you're after,  you have to be more specific about what you think is Hollywood grading.
Maybe post some names of Hollywood movies which you like for their color grading 

Maybe you can you upload some (short) footage of your 5d mark II with the anamorphic setup for us to play with already, before the actual footage comes in Januari.
I'd like to test some things 

[jameslarkin]

but picture styles don't influence raw footage

im quite new to using picture styles so don't know everything about them, thanks for that info

as far as hollywood style colour, im not 100% sure what im after, orange and teal looks great most of the time here are some examples of what i like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xD9uTlh5hI most of the scenes, there is one exception where its very turquoise

yeh i may well upload some footage soon, but also interested to make this a community effort so others are welcome to upload footage too

[Levas]

I like the 50's style color grading in your example, but it probably works best for pastel colors, so the cars en clothing and stuff must be the right style/color.
Don't know how it looks on modern London footage with people in Jeans, but we can try that out 

What's your plan to use it for, obviously you want to learn how to color grade.
But what are you planning to create ?
Short movies, music video clips, wedding movies or a budget blockbuster movie 

[jameslarkin]

well im starting psychotherapy company and i want to create some up to date and modern informational videos, im not 100% sure about the type of colour i want to achieve but ill know that i like the look of some of hollywoods colour, especially in the trailer

[Levas]

For information videos I'd suggest to use the correct white balance, natural/true colors (not orange/teal or other effects).
Also, make the videos bright, no dark shadows, but nice bright video.

Although you could go wild on color grading when explaining problems with mood and stuff (blue color for cold, no happiness and green color for fear etc...)

[jameslarkin]

the thing is, part of my branding is that i want my video to be set myself apart from the competition who seem to play it safe, and go for neutral colour, i want to create more feeling my in my videos