Lee #029 Plasa Red Gel Filter

Probably the most common filters used are colour conversion filters. Put simply they change the colour temperature of your lights. High definition video is a lot more sensitive to colour changes than film or standard definition and it’s a mistake to think that you can correct everything in the edit. If you’re using two or more different sources you must balance them before pressing the record button, otherwise you'll end up in the situation in post-production where the editor tries to balance once light source only to put out the others. The three main types of colour conversion are blues, oranges and magenta-greens. The blues are used to increase the colour temperature by taking away the red and yellow end of the light source. Orange on the other hand, takes away the blue end of the spectrum. Don’t forget, filters don’t add a colour, they subtract away from it. Oh! And they