How can I improve my footage? (still struggling with scene files)

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ShBm

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This is a live performance I shot that's meant to look like someone in the crowd was shooting it, so the camera movement and zooming isn't what I'm trying to improve--in many ways this is what the client wanted. I am trying to make my footage look better, though, and I feel like one area I'm struggling in is manipulating scene files. I have Barry's book and have read and reread this section, but I thought if I posted what I shot this with people could point me in the right direction. Also, I realize there is not anywhere close to enough light. All I had to work with were some house lamps and a little foil I procured (my iris was open all the way the whole shoot), and I realize with the right lighting this would be 100 times better, but that's kind of a separate budgetary issue.

Here's a link to the footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXm0POzvItA (edit is a link to a different clip from that night)

This was my scene file:
Detail: 0
V Detail: +2
Coring: +1
Chroma Lvl: +2
Chroma Phase: -3
Color Temp: +5 (both)
Master Ped: 0
A. Iris: 0
Gamma: High
Knee: Low
Matrix: Cinelike

Does anyone have advice on what looks right or wrong with those settings?
 
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Those are reasonable settings for most circumstances, except the color temp -- that'll make your video look really, really blue. If that's what you want, then okay, but if that's not what you're aiming for, you should bring that back down to zero.
 
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