All language subtitles for Procolor_C09_L1a_Concept_Matching

Welcome to chapter nine, where
we're going to talk about shot matching.

But let's start off with the concept of
why in the world would we need to.

What is that about? Let's take a look.

Why in the world would we match shots?

Well, look at this handsome boy.

I mean, that should be all
you really need to know.

Okay. I'm sorry I had to do this.

Training's been going long enough.

It's time for some cats, all right?

But he actually is here for a reason,
so we can take a look at this picture.

And this image is great.
There's nothing wrong with it.

The exposure is good.

Contrast is good, saturation is nice.

Everything.

Everything's fine.

Everything's good with this man.

But the problem comes
when you start adding multiple shots

together into a sequence
like we always do during a video.

So now we have two shots of cats.

Let's say this is a, I don't know,
a cat documentary or something.

This cat is on kind of a gray background.

This cat is kind of on a gray background.

It's not that hard to believe
that both of these cats

could live in the same world,
possibly in the same house.

And if you can't, from this
cat to this cat,

assuming they're two different cats,
it wouldn't be that jarring.

But the more shots that we have
in the sequence,

the more we kind of get
a feel of an environment.

And that's when shots that look
a little bit different, like this one here

and this one here start
to kind of stick out like a sore thumb.

When you have that kind of big
overall difference,

it gets distracting to the viewer and that
can take the viewer out of the moment,

which means that they aren't
actually experiencing your movie

the way that you want them to.

And this is really the big deal behind
matching shots.

You want everything in a scene
to feel like

it lives in the same world,
in that there's nothing distracting.

When you cut from one shot
to the next to the next to the next.

So these are photos

shot in different environments that
weren't really supposed to match together.

But for clips that are supposed to
match together, that are kind of shot

for that purpose, we can massage them in
the color grid to look more seamless.

And that's the idea behind matching shots.