Editing - Brightness and Contrast

Whilst filming, I attempted to achieve harsh lighting through the use of natural light sources and the positioning of my actors. In some scenes though, this wasn't evident on film, therefore I had to adjust certain settings in post production to get the required aesthetic that I desired. I began to experiment with a variety of levels withing brightness and contrast; this enabled me to fix shots that were too dull and allowed me to create a more dramatic colour palette by heightening the contrast.

Here are clips from my music video, half consisting of clips in their original format, the other half being edited, with the brightness and contrast adjusted.



The adjustment of the brightness and contrast gives the footage a more dramatic, well defined edge similar to hard and low key lighting. I believe this will be effective at representing the present scenes as it creates a tense ambience reflecting his deflated emotions.

These are the settings I used for the clips within the video above. Only some clips within my music video will have the brightness adjusted, depending if they are predominantly shadows, however, all of the other present clips will have the contrast raised by 19%.