Mixing Black and White and Pleasantville Effect Picture Style

DHLOGAN

DHLOGAN

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I'll be shooting a music video with a T2i next month and I need a little advice.

The entire video will be in black and white except for a few shots. Those few shots will be mostly black and white as well, but with a few colors highlighted (Pleasantville Effect). I already know how to achieve the Pleasantville effect in post.

What would be the best way to shoot this?

Should I
1. Use the monochromatic picture style for all of the solid black and white shots, then switch to a color picture style for the "Pleasantville" shots?

Or should I
2. Shoot everything using a color picture style and just decrease the saturation for the solid black and white shots and apply the Pleasantville effect to the others? If so, which picture style would you guys recommend?

Thanks in advance.
 
2.

neutral

The only way I know would be to use the hue/saturation filter and select each color channel and adjust the saturation. For example, if you wanted to have a black and white image with a red flower, you would reduce the saturation on each channel except the red channel where you would leave it the same. I think... Haven't done it but that's how the filter works.
 
Thanks. I was leaning toward shooting everything in color.

Yeah the way I do the Pleasantville effect is to create a duplicate layer of the clip, lay it directly on top of the original, key out the color I want to keep in the duplicate. Then invert the filter so that everything else is keyed out. Then decrease the saturation on the original clip. So you have the color layered on top of the black and white clip.
 
DHLOGAN said:
Thanks. I was leaning toward shooting everything in color.

Yeah the way I do the Pleasantville effect is to create a duplicate layer of the clip, lay it directly on top of the original, key out the color I want to keep in the duplicate. Then invert the filter so that everything else is keyed out. Then decrease the saturation on the original clip. So you have the color layered on top of the black and white clip.
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:O

That's really clever! I'll have to try that.
 
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