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One‑Day Colour Grading Intensive in DaVinci Resolve
A practical one‑day workshop on professional colour correction and creative grading inside DaVinci Resolve’s Colour page.
2-Day Masterclass
From R12 500 per participant
About This Masterclass
What This Workshop
Is About
Colour is one of the most powerful tools in post‑production — and one of the most misunderstood. This one‑day workshop teaches you the full colour grading process inside DaVinci Resolve, from correcting a flat or log image to building a distinctive creative look. You will learn to read scopes accurately, build clean node structures, match shots across a sequence and apply LUTs with intention. The workshop covers both technical correction and creative grading so you leave with the knowledge to serve any brief, from broadcast‑accurate delivery to a cinematic, stylised finish.
What You'll Leave With
Three Outcomes.
One Day.
Read and interpret waveform, RGB parade and vectorscope displays to make precise, informed corrections
Build polished, story‑driven edits with captions, sound design and colour adjustments in CapCut
Apply creative LUTs and develop a distinctive colour look that serves the story and the brief
Curriculum
What We Cover
Colour Science, Scopes & the Colour Page
Understand the theory behind the tools. Learn the difference between colour correction and creative grading, how colour space and gamma affect your image, and how to read the waveform, RGB parade and vectorscope to make decisions based on data rather than guesswork. Get fully oriented inside DaVinci Resolve’s Colour page: nodes, galleries, clips and the remote grades system.
Primary Correction: Exposure, White Balance & Contrast
Build a technically correct, neutral image as the foundation for every grade. Use the Lift, Gamma and Gain wheels and the Log wheels to balance exposure and control contrast. Correct white balance precisely using colour temperature and tint, and normalise log or flat footage using colour space transforms so it is ready for a creative grade.
Node Structures, Shot Matching & Skin Tones
Work with nodes the way professional colourists do. Build serial, parallel and layer node structures to separate technical and creative adjustments. Use the Colour Warper, curves and qualifiers to isolate and correct specific colours and skin tones. Match shots across a sequence using the Colour Match function and manual scope‑guided adjustments.
Creative Grading, LUTs & Delivery
Build a finished creative look from your corrected image. Understand how to use and apply technical and creative LUTs correctly, develop a signature grade using contrast, saturation and hue adjustments, and use stills and the Gallery to save and recall grades across projects. Export a graded, delivery‑ready file with correct colour space tagging for your target platform.
Training Investment
One Price.
No Fluff.
Investment
From R12 500 per participant
Includes a two‑day masterclass, hands‑on filming and editing exercises across both days, two completed videos, a smartphone filming checklist, CapCut templates, a 30‑day content calendar and a repeatable production workflow guide.
Your Presenter
Derwent
Founder · Conniston Films
Derwent is the founder of Conniston Films, a premium video production company built around the belief that great video starts with great strategy. With clients including Heineken, BMW, Mercedes, Savanna, Nivea and Johnson’s, he brings real‑world production experience into every masterclass — not theory, not templates, but the exact system he uses on high‑end brand productions.