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Elevate your video colour grading skills with Samuel Cowan, Laag Media

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Automotive Editing & Colour Grading Workshop with Samuel Cowan — LAAG Media

You’ve captured the footage. Now learn how to turn it into cinema.

Continue your automotive filmmaking journey with an immersive editing and colour grading workshop with Samuel Cowan from LAAG Media, where you’ll learn how to transform your footage in DaVinci Resolve and develop a deeper understanding of professional colour workflows.

Moving beyond simply applying LUTs, Sam will take you through the art and science of colour grading — showing you how to build a grade with intention, control and creative purpose.

Master the Art of Colour

Learn how to take Log footage and transform it into high-impact cinematic imagery, while understanding what is happening to your image at every stage of the process.

You’ll explore professional grading techniques including:

  • Building and understanding node trees
  • Converting Log footage into a powerful cinematic image
  • Understanding the benefits of Sony XOCN internal RAW
  • Exploring the incredible colour information available from Sony Cinema Line cameras
  • Manual conversion techniques for contrast, exposure and tone curves
  • Enhancing and shaping colour with precision
  • Masking and targeted adjustments to control specific areas of the frame
  • Creating depth, separation and consistency across a sequence
  • Developing a cinematic look rather than relying on a one-click LUT

The focus is on understanding colour science and developing your own creative control — giving you the knowledge to build a grade from the ground up rather than simply applying someone else’s look.

From Camera to Cinema

This workshop is the perfect follow-up to the automotive filmmaking session. Take the footage you’ve captured and discover what’s possible when you understand how to properly edit, manipulate and colour your images.

Sam will share his professional approach to grading automotive footage, demonstrating how subtle changes in contrast, colour, tone and saturation can completely transform the feeling of a shot.

Whether you’re looking to create a polished automotive portfolio, develop your commercial filmmaking skills or simply get more from your Sony cinema footage, this is an opportunity to learn directly from an experienced filmmaker and take your work to the next level.

Exclusive Attendee Benefits

Attend the workshop and receive special discounts on the Sony FX5 and other Sony cameras and lenses.

Plus, attend the workshop and receive a FREE one-day ticket to Sony SceneScape, valued at $45.

And there’s more — attend the workshop and you’ll be eligible to WIN 1 of 5 trips to Japan with Sony, including airfares, accommodation and food.

T&Cs apply.

Don’t Just Use a LUT. Understand Your Image.

Learn to see colour differently and develop the skills to create your own cinematic look.

Join Samuel Cowan and LAAG Media for a hands-on journey through editing, colour science and cinematic colour grading — and discover how to take your footage from captured image to finished cinema.

Shoot it. Shape it. Grade it. Make it cinematic.

Techniques covered

  • Video Colour Grading on Da Vinci Resolve

What to bring

  • Laptop and Charger with Da Vinci preinstalled (free version is OK)
  • Camera and Lens
  • Sample LOG Footage you have captured 
Fri 25 Sep 2026, 5:00PM - 6:30PM (UTC+10) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Intermediate
Event capacity: 10
A$75 per/person    Book now
Attend & win a trip to Japan with Sony!

Attend & win a trip to Japan with Sony!

Attend any event during Scene Festival, which runs between Tuesday 1 September - Saturday 31 October 2026, and receive one entry into the draw for a chance to win one of five tickets to the ultimate Scene experience in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan! The more events you attend, the more chances you have to WIN!

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the content covered in the event was not what I expected, it was better. It has inspired my to make my own short film. ”

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