Production- Editing- Color Correction

After doing all of the basic editing (which did take a lot longer than I expected), I moved on to making my film seem as "horror coded" as possible.

To do this, I modified the overall coloring and vibrancy of my film. I changed my Premiere Pro layout from Editing to Color- that means that instead of my screen looking like this:

It instead looks like this: 

This allowed me to see the highs and lows of my scene's brightness, adjust the hues, alter the contrast, etc.

Since I didn't have much experience in color correction, I mostly played around with all the different functions and controls until I got the look I wanted. I did have to change the setting based on the general brightness of the scene that was shot, but most of them were the same.

 The setting that I used most frequently was faded film bar to 43, sharpen to 100, vibrance to -63, the saturation to 93.3, then I set the vignance to -1.3. These controls made the scene go from this:

To this:

As you can see, the liveliness of the film was almost completely stripped away from it, giving a very monotone/ slightly eerie feeling to it. The dark edges of the screen gave the scene a traditional spooky look, while also insinuating that this happened in the past.

I only applied these setting to the first section of the film( right before the title sequence) because the rest of the opening was meant to seem like a regular day for the siblings. Contrasting with the scene that just took place.