A “colourist” is someone who corrects colour in footage. A colourist is someone who makes the camera image less “flat” They edit raw or flat images so they can edit more. They want a seamless the colourist will want the audience not to know that it has been colour graded. They have to look at everything and have to make the scene fit the easiest colour corrector on premier pro is the colour wheel
Colour grading is used after correction this includes using scope and waveforms. This is utilised on third party software, you start with removing noise correct the colour temperature you adjust the shadows then the whites then you adjust the mids (the rest of the colours) then add any filters that are appropriate.
Exposure correction you can correct exposure using blend modes. Using darken and lighten blend mode among 3 other blend modes you can combine blend modes to make better effects.
LUTs
LUTs are colour filters that changes colours to another colour LUTs need programs to run onto media the
Adjustment layers
- Colour pre-sets
- Exposure pre-sets
- Film grain
- Vignettes
- Distortions
good videos to watch to help understand
Peters Media Blog 