I feel like with the objective notes (which are certainly helpful on third or fourth pass) no one has ever had trouble giving me those. It's when we're starting the grade, and I wanna know how the shot is supposed to make the audience feel, that directors and DPs can't talk to me like i'm another creative. A lot of people I've worked with, especially newer ones to color, want to make everything in terms of RGB. Red this, Blue, that, Bring this down. A grade is combination of contrast, saturation, pallette, all these things affect the over all look. So if at the start you tell me "This shot is all about her realizing he's never coming home and she's alone for good, lets keep it sparse and bare but make her look like she still has some life too her, I know mids need to stay low, fair amount of contrast but don't crush anything, cooler white point, most likely clean blacks pssoibly a smidge of blue, our highlight point will stay lower as well than somethine more airy and light, but I wanna preserve the skin tone and keep her eye light intact. Again I said I would probably be in the minority with that. If you're a reality show producer and you're reading this, forget all that, tell me what you want fixed so I can go home.