Feature and Short Film Color Grading
Tailored Color Grading To Elevate Your Vision
A refined color grade will elevate your narrative feature or short film, preparing it for the big screen. It’s about crafting a look that elevates your final image, ensuring your message and story are felt, not just seen. When you work with a colorist, your film will look more polished and have a distinct look to elevate your story.
Music Video Color Grading Services: Start To Finish
Every narrative, whether a short or feature length piece, has it’s own unique characteristics. We aim to emphasize these with a hand-crafted look and unique color palette. Our goal is to walk your film through our color grading workflow to bring your footage to life.
Look Development
The process of developing a look for your short film or feature film is crucial for crafting a high quality, unique motion picture. Working with a film colorist you can develop a unique look that helps better tell the story of your narrative. This process not only elevates the video production quality of the film, but also better tells it’s story. By working with both reference material and your original creative ideas, we craft the look your film necessitates, ensuring each scene gets the most out of the footage.
Color Correction & Grading
Color grading is more than applying a look, we also aim to color correct your footage and apply your look consistently. Color correction for your short or feature film is key to making sure your look is applied consistently and the footage has a proper level of polish. It’s key to get the most out of your footage, infusing it with your distinct aesthetic, and ensuring color balance in every shot for a consistent look. Once we have an established look it acts as the finishing stroke, a the last touch that ensures each frame not only showcases its best but also aligns with your narrative’s creative vision.
Delivery For Any Format
In the realm of video editing and color grading for narrative films, we know handling timelines and managing footage can be a hassle. Regardless of the camera footage we’re working with, our we ensure proper conformity and export of your short or feature film to the desired color space. While platforms with standard color spaces like Rec709 are common, our services are versatile to deliver your film tailored to any viewing color space or video quality you require. Whether you are streaming your film, or taking it on the festival circuit, we can deliver it to the color space you need.
Featured Music Video Color Grading Credits
Our portfolio has a spectrum of projects, aiming to showcase work across a variety of styles, genres, and stories. No matter the genre or style of narrative film you’re creating, we are prepared to deliver the color grade that helps tell your story and elevates your film’s visuals.
Caviar (2023)
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Caviar
Caviar | 2023 Feature Film Colorist Director: Jacob Michael KingProduced By: Jais SardoCinematographer: Caleb SmileyFirst AC: D. Edward LemminkColor: Riley KrutzaCaviar: Bizarre Political Satire Horror Caviar is a political satire, found footage style horror movie...
About RK Color
We understand the work it takes to produce a narrative piece, whether a short film or feature film. At RK Color, we are prepared to meet the needs of directors, producers, and editors, regardless of (finish sentence). Our goal is to craft stunning visuals that will elevate your production, and to ensure every scene in your film looks exactly how you want it to.
We know a film production can be dynamic and that there are plenty of moving parts – which is why our goal is to make the feature or short film color grading process go as smooth as it can. We can work with your video editing and visual effects team to coordinate footage transfer, and can even work with you during pre-production to establish a plan to set the feature or short film color grading process up for success. Our main goal is to maintain open communication about the process, as we’ve found that good communication will resolve nearly all issues you can run into in post-production.
We combine the technical know-how with the creative aspects of feature or short film colorgrading to ensure your visuals are as compelling as your script. Whether you’re an indie filmmaker or a production house, RK Color is equipped to help achieve your vision through a collaborative approach, timely deliveries, and a final product that resonates vividly with your audience.
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Feature and Short Film Color Grading Services
I shot my footage just fine, why do you need to color correct it?
Color correction is a absolute most-have step in the world of color grading to ensure the look we spend so much time on ends up being applied consistently across your footage. Even well-shot footage may have variations in white balance, color channels, or exposure that need fine tuning. Color correction sets a neutral base, adjusting the picture profile and log footage, before diving into feature or short film color grading to apply the desired look. Video color correcting is what helps your short or feature film have the best feature film or short film color grading possible.
How much does it cost to color grade a short film?
It can cost anywhere from around $300 up to $1000+ to color grade a short film. That being said, the cost of color grading a short film will vary based on the complexity of your project, the desired look, the colorist’s expertise, and the length of the short film. This is why it’s important to get a custom quote and discuss your needs with a colorist when planning your production budget. It’s an investment into elevating your film’s visuals, so make sure you get the most out of it by planning ahead in pre-production.
How long does it take to color grade a short film?
The time it takes to color grade a short film can range from a few days to a couple of weeks, depending on the intricacy of the color correction needed, the length of the film, and the precision required in matching different colors across shots.
How long does it take to color grade a feature film?
Color grading a feature film is a meticulous process that can span several weeks to a few months. The duration hinges on factors like the film’s length, the complexity of the color adjustments, how many visual effects are involved, and what deliverables are needed. The process entails a deep dive into the basics of color grading to ensure each scene reflects the intended mood, with color timing meticulously adjusted to narrate the story effectively.
Can you make my film look like this example I have?
Absolutely! By analyzing your reference material and understanding the desired look of your film, we can craft a similar but unique aesthetic using digital color grading techniques. Whether it’s achieving a Wes Anderson-esque look, or a desaturated, bleach bypass visual akin to certain film stocks, we can pull key elements from various styles while maintaining a unique feel and color scheme to align with your film’s narrative.