Production Assistant: Color Chart

Video Transcript

"In this segment we're going to learn what a color chart is and how to use it. Now this is a color chart, obviously it doesn't have any color so it's a little weird to call it a color chart. But that's it's name really. Now it has on the top row from blackest down to whitest, and as you can see it goes down a couple of shades each time until it gets to pure white. On the bottom it does the exact opposite. It goes from pure white up a couple of shades each time to darkest black. Now the good part about this is so this way you can get every color in between. Now like I was saying it doesn't have the reds, greens, blues, even purples, but it does help with the colors as well. Now with this one we have obviously our black and white side, or if you're using cameras that don't use camera control units, which we'll touch on later. It does have a pure white side, so that way you can zoom, in do your focus, white balance your camera just how you would with a field camera. I mean some studios still have cameras like that. Another thing with this when you're setting it up, you're going to want to do it with all you studio lights on that way you're sure that you have the normal light temperature that you'll be using. And also you're going to want to make sure it's at the right height for where your talent is going to sitting at. That way you can make sure that where the lights going to be on them is going to be the correct coloring in the camera."