Understanding Color in Film | Beginner's Guide

Learn all you need to know about Color Theory. After watching this you will be able to implement these techniques to elevate the quality of your work.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:41 Free ACES Training Session
1:39 History
2:44 CIE System
3:48 Color Wheel Overview
5:53 Interactive Exercise
9:36 Color Harmonies
9:49 Monochromatic
10:54 Analogous
11:35 Complementary
13:58 Split Complementary
15:18 Conclusion

About:
I am a professional colorist and have worked with brands such as Prime Video, Adidas, Toyota, Vizio, etc. Outside client work, I run a color academy with over 6000 students. My channel mostly focuses on the taste-making (subjective) aspect of color grading. With the rise of AI, I truly believe that most of the grunt, technical (how-to) tasks will be handled by the software, and the job of a colorist will be purely driven by their art and imagination.

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[johnrandall]

I have been a video editor for years on Avid, also color blind as far as FAA is concerned, but the comments and way you explained the color was unbelievably great. I now am moving to Resolve and finding the learning curve is so helped by people like you. Thank you john R

[dareesedevelops]

This the best video on color I’ve watched in all 4 years of YouTube University

[gavinvmurray]

"Spring Breakers, which is a rom com" - Not something I was expecting to hear ever haha. Wonderful video appreciate the info.

[blahblahco.]

One of the best videos I've ever watched about color grading. Might be the best!

[livesongs]

pivotal information here, This is incredibly important for anyone getting into photography video editing. this is a must. Thank you so much Qazi!

[wakkowarner]

I loved this tutorial. I learned so much about why we do things from this lesson, and not just how to do things.

[BrunoWilke]

Very good, I'm color blind, I have a lot of difficulties in the colorometry part to edit my videos and photos, you explained very well, it helped me a lot. Thanks.

[bcl]

WOW...A true teacher. This is EDUCATION.

[LuxeriMedia]

Best one! I like the basics and origin. With that, creativity is limitless

[oaktreesewede]

Just started to colorgrade in school. This video really helped me understand and get on the EDGE!

[DozifJuggles]

Hey Qazi,

I wanted to thank you for all your videos, they have taught me so much about Resolve that I couldn't have learned otherwise. I've recently gotten a job working for a DIT on an upcoming netflix film as a dailies overnight processor and a lot of the workflow was intuitive to me because of what I've learnt about Resolve from these videos (which I think I've now watched all of them, some twice). I always thought I'd try to be a cinematographer as that's what I specialised at in university or try to become a colourist but I think now I'm going to be trained up as a DIT with a focus on OnSet Colour work in Silverstack XT and Resolve. I luckily made the contact with this DIT through a friend's family member's friend so a lot of luck was involved but I wouldn't have been half as confident in my skills in this role if not for these videos and have been able to quit my job as a bartender to go into DIT work as my career path.

Wishing you all the best from here in rainy London,

Joseph

[Motionphile]

Didn't realize it's already 17 minutes of watching 🔥 just the best 🙌

[shooting_with_E]

This is one of the most beneficial videos I have ever watched. Not only as an aspiring colorist but as a current cinematographer this gave me so much insight. This will pay off not only in post, but also in my preproduction and principal photography processes. You continue to share pivotal information. In my opinion, you are one of the top 3 sources for filmmakers on this platform.

[TheDjescob]

Working on high-end VFX for movies, and having to deal with this kind of challenges very often this is a dead on explanation .. Hats off sir !

[mohammadabuobaidamullick]

This is the thing that I subscribed you for and looking for for months! <3

[lec_R]

I actually learnt how colours and contrast work from watching art videos since there aren't many videos specifically about colours for film. This should be a great resource.

BTW the art videos were pretty good too

[nicki_nick]

Great video! I love the breakdowns using mainstream film examples and how the color grading is used to tell a story

[FeelFreetoEdit]

Q1. B is brighter.
Q2. Right is brighter.
Q3. Right is brighter.
Q4. The 2 Greens are different.

This is a great interactive session I have ever seen and this helped me a lot.
Really loved this crash course. Learnt a lot of practical examples.
Keep going Qazi.

[bashutvbd]

I am Addicted To Your Videos! Thanks for the Information. Easy to learn

[shuolangliu]

Thanks for the vid. You are my only colour grading mentor online at the moment. I feel like I could learn from you so much in terms of technical and theoretical skills. I am an aspiring cinematographer but want to get better at grading. Hopefully we get a lot more theoretical videos like this in the future :)