Get an in-depth look at the Carlos Sainz and Oliver Bearman edit from the Docuedit F1 2024 season documentary. In addition, learn more about the editing process behind Dani Lozano’s 2024 documentary, including its color grading and branding.
CARLOS SAINZ EDIT CONTEXT
Carlos Sainz started the 2024 Formula 1 season performing extremely well in the first race of the season, the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix. Carlos executed incredible overtakes and moves that placed him in the podium positions. But the start of the season for Sainz was an absolute roller coaster. The week after his fantastic podium in Bahrain, during the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, he suffered appendicitis, missing the rest of the weekend, including the race.
15 days after the operation, Carlos Sainz was able to drive his Ferrari in the 2024 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. And not only that, he was able to win that race despite feeling pain and some discomfort due to the aftermath of his appendicitis. An extraordinary story that you will be able to watch in the Docuedit F1 2024 as you have never seen before.
OLIVER BEARMAN EDIT CONTEXT
While Carlos Sainz was recovering in hospital after his appendicitis during the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, the reserve driver of Scuderia Ferrari, the English driver Oliver Bearman, replaced him for the rest of the weekend. With only one practice session before qualifying, Bearman performed very well on his debut, finishing 11th in qualifying. On race day, he confirmed his performance by gaining positions and battling through the field to finish in 7th place on his Formula 1 debut with Ferrari.
You will be able to watch that fantastic debut in Saudi Arabia in the Docuedit F1 2024, in an epic edit that highlights Bearman’s best on-track action that weekend, including special moments where Carlos Sainz Sr., Bearman’s father, and even Lewis Hamilton become part of the story.
DEVELOPER DIARY 01 – DOCUEDIT F1 2024
What’s the meaning of Docuedit? Why is it so important to define the color grading of the documentary? These questions are answered in the first episode of the Developer Diary, a video series in which the creator of this project, Dani Lozano, reveals insights, secrets, and details that only he knows. In this first episode, you’ll be able to watch part of the editing process behind the Carlos Sainz and Oliver Bearman edits.
• The meaning of Docuedit
First of all, the word «Docuedit» is something I’ve created myself. It’s a combination of two words: documentary and edit. By combining these words, I’ve created the term Docuedit.
It will be a compilation of stories that happen during the 2024 Formula 1 season, featuring different drivers. These stories will be short, focusing on one, two, or maybe three particular races.
The idea is to mix the narrative and storytelling you can find in my documentaries with the editing techniques and visual effects you can see in my Formula 1 edits from the past, such as Awaken – Max Verstappen, The Sixth Dream by Lewis Hamilton, or Magic – Fernando Alonso. Docuedit is a combination of these two formats.
My intention is to eventually cover one story for each of the 20 drivers during the season. I don’t know if that will be possible. There are 20 drivers, and not all of them will have particularly interesting stories to tell throughout the season. I’d also like to feature all 10 teams at some point in the Docuedit series.
That’s the plan. Will I be able to do it? I’m not sure, but that’s why I’m creating this development diary: to explain the process and show you how I’m building this project step by step.
• Color correction of the footage
I’d like to comment on something I did to the footage in terms of editing.
Normally, all my documentaries have some kind of color correction. Basically, I add a dominant color to the documentary to create that cinematic or film look, where the images are more manipulated in terms of color.
For this Docuedit, I’ve gone for a more general color balance. I’ve noticed that when Formula 1 uploads footage to social media, such as YouTube, whether it’s race footage, race highlights, or driver interviews, the images tend to have a slight red color cast.
What I did in this Docuedit was reduce some of that red by adding its opposite color: green. This way, I’m trying to balance the overall colors of the footage and create a much more natural look by reducing the red tones and adding a bit of green.
You can see the comparison in the following iamges. On the left side of each image, you have the original footage, while on the right side, you can see the footage with all the filters I’ve applied.
In the first image, you can see how the original footage uploaded by Formula 1 to YouTube and social media has a slight red tint. The track looks a bit reddish. After applying all the filters, color correction, and color balance, you can see how the track looks much more neutral and grey.
In the second image, you can see how much cleaner and more natural the dark areas of the sky look. Pay attention to the spotlight in the middle of the image. With my filters applied, the light is completely white. In the original footage, on the right side of the image, it has a reddish tint.
I’ve also improved the color saturation. The red is now much stronger and more intense, as you can see on the car’s chassis.
DEVELOPER DIARY 01 – FULL EPISODE
Would you like to see more of the Carlos Sainz and Oliver Bearman editing process? Would you like to learn more about the new edits I was working on for this project? You can get access to all this information in the full first episode of the Developer Diary – Docuedit F1 2024 available for Patreon members.
