Post Production: Transitions and color grading

Now that the basic editing is done and the sequence is finalized, it's time to add some transitions and to color grade the project. I downloaded Jarle's presets 2.0 and Cinema style fx and imported them to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.

It's conventional to use white flashes when transitioning to a flashback. I found something much better in the Jarle's presets misc effects; bad tv reception. Its sort of a glitch and that coupled with the jump cuts in the flashback sequence is a great way of representing the man's mental state. He's schizophrenic so he also suffers from memory loss (Symptoms mentioned in previous posts) Chunks of his memories are missing.

I applied this effect by putting cuts at the beginning and the start of the clips. and also added cuts to the ending of the clip before it and a cut to the starting of the clip after it. This makes the transition look much professional.

For color grading the project I used the Cinema Style FX preset. I used the '1970 film' effect on the flashbacks to turn the colors brown and hazy. Hazy like the schizophrenic man's memories. I also decreased the saturation considerably. I chose these colors to represent his illness and also to make it obvious that it's a flashback as flashbacks usually have dull colours.

For the indoor scenes, I kept the colours warm. This is to show that at that point in time, he is just a father missing his son and he is innocent. The colours of the flashback create a contrast with it; it jumps from saturated and warm to unsaturated and somewhat cool. This is done to represent his split personality.