How to get "film look" on Epic for cinema?

[Alexey Datsenko]

Could you please advice how to get "film look" picture for shooting cinema.
I see "Pirates of Carribian 4". "Prometeus" and etc and I see a amazing "film look" picture but I have been trying to get with Epic and could not. I was try to make color correction in Redcine-X but it is don't look like "film look".
Could you please tell me how on movies shoot on Epic is getting such amazing "film look" picture?

1. Color correction in Da Vinci?
2. Magic Bullet?

Or maybe something else?

Thank you

[David Baumber]

Lighting, lighting, lighting? I'm not that much of an expert but that would be my first guess :)

Can you put any stills or motion of your work on here for us to see? I'm still trying to improve my work too like so many others.

[Alexey Datsenko]

Yes, Lighting is very important but when I see a big scenes for example a city square in the frame there is no any lighting besides sun and it is amazing "film look". Ok I will attach r3d file with my attempts.

[Jon Carr]

Define "film look"

[Alexey Datsenko]

Define "film look"

Look at any movie trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E2tE...eature=related

[Jon Carr]

Look at any movie trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E2tE...eature=related

I'm asking you to define film look form your own personal words. Ones opionun of film look can be different from another.

[Lin]

Usually what people mean is: Contrasty, highlights tending towards warm, yellow tones. In SpeedGrade use a LUT layer and use the CineSpace2383sRGB6Bit.itx LUT - this usually gives you a good starting point and it's usually what people mean. Then use Opacity to fine tune and grade on top. Maybe another tutorial, Jon? (Great work on the other one!).

Cheers,
Lin

[Graeme Nattress]

It's a combination of lighting and grading. For grading, Pirates of the Caribbean 4 used Davinci, REDLogFilm setting in the decode as their grading starting point.

Graeme

[Jaakko Rinne]

Yes, Lighting is very important but when I see a big scenes for example a city square in the frame there is no any lighting besides sun and it is amazing "film look". Ok I will attach r3d file with my attempts.

The fact that you can't see lighting in the scene does not mean that there isn't any. And it definitely does not mean that an extraordinary amount of work was not needed to get the shot with just the available light (timing, location, camera placement etc.). It's all about lighting (and a bit about grading).

[Timur Civan]

You're all wrong.

film look its art direction and production design, then lighting, ;)