Kevin Ritchie's C300 Footage - A Dark Interpretation

Try listening to this video with headphones!

Many thanks to Kevin Ritchie for making this great Canon EOS C300 footage available for those of us without access to the camera to try color grading it; you can find it at this link:

vimeo.com/36233022

My approach was to bring it into Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 on my MacBook Pro, and I moved the clips around and added the fades. I started with Magic Bullet Colorista II for a basic grade, then added MB Mojo to spice it up, and finally added Magic Bullet Looks 2 sometimes in addition to Mojo and sometimes instead of it. Each clip is HEAVILY worked over, and to my eye they held up very well.

I love sound design so I built a multilayered sound environment with industrial and animal sounds, and finally added a soundtrack made with SonicFire Pro's SmartSound software and music. This is an awesome program that lets you customize each track with near infinite variety, and then it automagically will shorten or lengthen the score to fit your exact time frame. It's like musical Play-Doh!

Thanks again, Kevin...this was just a lot of fun to play with. Can't wait to get hold of the camera and do some shooting with it!