CC 1X LEVELED = Blacks are now black, added a tint of yellow for a more filmy feel
CC GLOOMY MOOD = CC 1X LEVELED + messing w/ Channel mixer and Color blance until it was filmy + gloomy
I know that geodesic dome well (as do several others on the board here). Plus, one time Duncan MacLeod picked up a quickening at lit the whole thing up.
Truth be known though...I haven't calibrated my monitor since i got slammed by the wayard font and had to rebuild, so they were looking a tad dark to me. I may have pushed up the brightness too much to compensate.
I can do the color correction in any program that has the ability to mess with levels, color levels and adjustments, I know my vegas has it, but for speedy delivery I did this in photoshop.
Bigmagic, what version of premiere are you using? PPro has a specific filter you can drag and drop on the footage that gives you everything from color curves, general gamma, levels etc. Learning to color correct isn't too hard. Pick up a book on photoshop (if you can't find a book on video) and learn about the image adjustment controls. You can do pretty much everything that you can do in photoshop with Premiere.