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Of course, what these varied illuminants mean depends on the visual palette you develop.
Warm lighting that denotes romance in one film may instead portray roiling, desert-bound
discomfort in another. Their impact, depends on the associations that your grading makes
between the visuals and the story. Should this scene seem later in the day? Should the
colors be more subdued? Should the sky be an inescapable presence? You control these
audience perceptions when you exercise subtle control over the picture via color grading.
The important takeaway is that the Color page gives you the tools to mold these
associations to suit your needs – intensifying, attenuating, or completely counteracting
theireffect, as necessary, to strike the right tone for each and every scene.
Portraying the World Subjectively
Narrative cinematography is rarely concerned with capturing objectively lit renditions of
locations with perfectly accurate, neutral color and tonality. Instead, truckloads of lighting
instruments and careful art direction manipulate the light and color of the location to make
it look somber, magical, frightening, or sultry. These efforts extend to the grading suite,
where your job is not to portray the world as it is, but the world that the cinematographer
and director want the audience to see.
Cooler Warmer
What the camera saw (left) What you want audiences to see (right)
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