Color Grading Basics 2020
This is a 1-hour color grading crash course that will take you from not knowing anything about Resolve to comfortably grading your first professional project.
Basics
Color Grading
Aligning shots to grid-line
To horizontally or vertically align a shot, you can add a grid-line as open fx and then add it to an adjustment clip
Editing
Nodes for Noobs
Nodes for Noobs | Resolve Color Page Tutorial | Serial, Parallel & Layer Nodes
Fusion
Screenwriting
Basic story structure
- ACT 1 (The setup)
- Introduces us to the theme and hero
- We learn about the old world of the character and his regular routines
- We get a glance on how the world is before things start to change
- Once our hero leaves Act 1, things will never be the same once he returns to his old world
- We make the character likeable in Act 1. We learn how he behaves in the world
- We understand the theme of the film
- * Plot point 1. The act breaks into the next act. Something happens that will start the main character's arc.
- ACT 2 (Confrontation)
- Plot point 1 broke us into the second act
- This act is about confrontation
- Our hero has a new goal!
- Our here leaves the old world
- This act is the actual movie that people will be watching. It's the longest act out of the 3.
- This is where our hero's arc starts
- He is forced to learn new things in order to achieve his goal
- * Plot point 2 breaks the story into the final act
- ACT 3 (The reveal)
- This act is about the resolution of the film
- The character will return to the old world - but it will never be the same
- The hero will be a different person after his arc
- He will have learned a lot about himself
- We return to the opening from the 1'st page, but things are totally different!