Editing - Colour Correction

I filmed a scene with my actors Lexi and Nathalie on different days so the weather was very different on everyday. Planning was not very successful either due to the unpredictable british weather. As you can see above I filmed my actor Lexi when it was very sunny so this affected the colour and quality. I uploaded the footage onto FinalCut Pro and it was then that I noticed the difference between this footage and my other footage where I had filmed on days where it was not so sunny and instead it was getting dark. On FinalCut Pro I selected the footage that I wanted to edit and I clicked on the colour correction which enabled me to change and play around with the exposure, shadows and highlights. I needed to edit the colour as the picture was very bright so it did not match my theme and atmosphere of my short film, the bright colours may connote mixed messages to my audience.

I then tried to match the colour up to another screen shot of my short film. I got two pictures up side by side so it made it a whole lot easier of me to correct the colour and make it seem as though it was all filmed on the same day. I played around with the exposure and then I was able to match it up with my other footage of my other actor Nathalie. I matched the colour up as best as I could and above is a picture of my footage after I had corrected the colour to match it up. Now I have sussed how to correct the colour I had keep it consistent and professional.