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Additional scope concepts: Skin tone, colorfulness, and shot matching

Additional scope concepts: Skin tone, colorfulness, and shot matching

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Additional scope concepts: Skin tone, colorfulness, and shot matching

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- To wrap up this chapter, I wanna talk about a couple additional concepts that the scopes help with, and the first concept I wanna talk about is the idea of colorfulness. I think it's pretty easy when you look at a shot to go, okay, there's the contrast, there's the white point, there's the black point, using the waveform. It's pretty easy to evaluate overall saturation and overall hues that are present using the vectorscope, and it's pretty simple, once you get the hang of it, to use the R-G-B parade or the waveform set to overlay mode to evaluate overall color balance. But one thing that's a little foreign is this idea of colorfulness in a shot. I answer a lot of questions from people who're going, yeah, why doesn't my shot just look like it does in a movie? Well, one of the reasons that a shot that you might take on your own doesn't look like a big-budget Hollywood feature is colorfulness. So let's take a look at what that is. Here in this shot, you can see I have a street scene…

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