Editing: colour correction

^Within this shot the colour correction has made the ribbon stand out the most by keeping the red colour, the rest of the colour within the shot has been made to look much more bleak which creates a dirty look to the killers skin and also the background.

^This shot has been edited to show the pale pastel colours of the clothing that the girl is wearing adding to the conventions of her character- innocence, purity, goodness etc. This is made more powerful by the dark dirty colours of the woods within the setting.

^Within this shot the pastel and white colours show the clean, pureness of the young girl. The rest of the background is almost black and white to once again highlight the colours that are on show and make the colours stand out for the audience. What is interesting about this shot is that a certain amount of colour has been taken out of the girls skin, which is almost suggesting that she is becoming grim and dark like the background.


These are a few images of an outcome 3-way colour correction, we decided to use it to de-saturate many of our clips to take away the vibrancy and create a far more grim sinister feel. The decreased saturation has meant that the blacks and whites are emphasised much more than other colour to focus the audiences attention to the colours that are bold enough to see, the brightest being the red ribbon in the girls hair so when it falls out of her hair the audience are immediately drawn to it.
The use of colour correction was also used in clips when the killer is writing and playing with the jewellery, the use of colour correction here also adds to the dirty look like the killer is unpure perhaps?
However we didn't use the colour correction just to create dirty and harsh colours, we also used it to maintain a lot of the soft pastel colours.