Coyote Falls Trailer - A Cody Powers Short Western Film

[danaralstonmusic]

I was at the screening and I loved the film! Great job Cody!!!

[AngrySlop]

This looks great! Could you give me a general idea about what you did with the color/saturation/contrast? Did you use color wheels? Thanks.

[Theelephantsays]

@AngrySlop Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. I generally brought the whites down, the blacks up and reduced the saturation. However, on a few of the clips I acutally reduced saturation. I did push the color balance a bit towards orange to give a warm tone to the image in the dustier scenes. In the darker forest scenes I adjusted the hue toward cool colors.

I also shot in cinema mode, which seems to give a flatter image more suited to grading and keeps the gain low, reducing noise.

[sebipayne]

I very liked the grading! Looks professional.

What color correction did u use in Final Cut? Did u light the scenes, or u used only natural lights?

[Theelephantsays]

@sebipayne Thanks. I used the color corrector filter. Final Cut Express only has the one-way version. All natural light. I believe I used a car sunshade to bounce sunlight into the actor's face at 0:32.

[AfistfullOfFilm]

realy good my only problem was with the gunshots not that i'm a top class filmaker or anything close to it but I guess it just bothered me (I'm picky) other than that the shots were very well done.

[KomicGenius]

Wow this looks good and I have the same camera

[LegendaryCouple]

Congratulations on the great job you are doing. So exciting!

All good wishes,

The Suttons

[thanyou]

Looking good Cody, I can't wait for the full movie!

[Roramirez21]

This looks amazing!!!!!!!! I can't wait to see the final product!!! When you showing it???

[MikelWJ]

This is awesome man! The full video = Amazing too!!! :D woop woop!!

[Efrainpedroza]

Holy cow! It looks exciting! Can't wait to watch the whole thing!!

[kingronan89]

Hey man, looks like you've raised the stakes a bit since your last film! Great job, can't wait to see it! :D