Another excellent Pomplamoose video happened! If you've never heard of Pomplamoose I suggest you go on a huge music video watching spree and watch everything they've ever done. Like the previous Pomplamoose video I had about a 1 day turnaround. Nataly, Jack, and I worked remotely (they're up in the San Franscisco area) mainly through text and email as I colored here in LA. We went back and forth a few times determining how we want the look to be and decided on a slight teal and orange push.

 

In order for this look to really work and look good I had to pull a skin key on every shot so that was the most time consuming. I worked in Davinci Resolve 11 so lots of parallel nodes, one node pushing all tones towards teal a tad and the other parallel node pulling the skin tones back to where they should live on vectorscope. Of course before I could do this there was a lot of color balancing to be done. They shot this using the T5i and a Canon C100. There was an eclectic mix of white balances and some pretty gnarly orange overtones to take care of in the picture frame scenes and some others. For some reason I'm explaining everything backwords in this post. Before I did the balancing I used Resolve's scene detect to get me started on creating an EDL for their PRHQ. It's tough using scene detect with Pomplamoose videos because it finds cuts based on the abrupt changes in colors and contrast but a lot of their cuts seem to be pretty sneaky little ones. Previous cuts match the next cut and so on. But Resolve had about a 50% pick up rate for those.

 

This video isn't so much about looks as the "Wake Me Up" music video was. Instead of many scenes of candylicious looks we have just 1 solid look that we push more or less for each scene and that is the Orange and Teal look. Some of the shots didn't fit the edges of the screen so I also did some heavy vignette feathering on those so we didn't have a big square box in the middle of the screen. Like I said above, lots of parallel nodes.

 

All color was done in Davinci Resolve 11 with the Euphonix MC Artist Color panel. My monitor was the Dolby PRM-4200.