Due to the nature of the very flat footage I shot the first step was to add a little contrast to the footage. Because this has the consequence of lowering shadow depth so I used curves to raise the black point very slightly to match the style of the previous stuff I researched. I then used tint to map the shadows to brown and highlights to a straw yellow. This gives a warming effect without altering the mid-tones too much, giving it a much subtler look while still adding a stylised feel. Shifting the hue balance slightly corrected for any mid-tone shift they may have occurred. I then finally added and unsharp mask to replaced the built in and fairly terrible sharpening my camera normally applies.
For the interview footage I carried out a similar process but mapped the blacks to a cooler indigo colour to give it a little more of a stylised look. I tried to keep this to the interview footage because I would like to try and represent the ingredients and dishes in the most realistic way possible.
