Colour Correction in Premiere CS4

I am a teacher from Australia and I'm editing a film at the moment. The footage has been shot on a set that has since been dismantled (so we can't re-shoot anything). The majority of the shots look good, but some are over-cooked (as a result of using too much lighting) and some are too dark (as a result of not using enough). Below I have listed a normal looking shot, a washed out shot, and a dark shot. My aim is to try and get the colours in the bottom two images to match the colours in the top one,
I have been using colour correction, brightness/contrast and rgb curves in premiere to try and fix the problem, but I'm not having much luck. I know I won't get them all looking exactly the same, but if anyone can give me some pointers as to how I could get the bottom two shots looking close to the first one (in terms of the colours and brightness), I'd greatly appreciate it. My students are asking me these questions and I don't know what to tell them!
1. Normal shot (how I want all the footage to look):
2. Washed out shot:
3. Dark shot (this was obviously shot in front of a green screen, but I want to make the skin and jumper tones look the same as the first shot).

Hey robodog2 and Ann
Thanks for getting back to me so swiftly. The both of you have been so useful. You make quite a team! I used the steps that you suggested, robodog, in the right order, and I also used the three way colour corrector, thanks to that nifty little video link that you sent, Ann. I have posted my results below.
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
On the second image (the washed out one) I ended up only using the three way colour corrector and brightness/contrast. I changed the background blue and the skin tone, to be a little less yellow.I ended up leaving the jumper, because it was bright enough.
I'd like to list you both in the thank you section of the video, if that's alright (by your user names).
Cheers!
-Linus
P.S. I also used dust and scratches on the green screen shot, and it really smoothed out the graininess. The unsharp effect didn't really seem to work for me, at high or low values. Oh, and in regards to the indexed colour/jpeg issue, I don't have photoshop on this computer and I wasn't sure how to export from Premiere as a jpeg and non-indexed colour.

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What is your drive setup?
Read Harm on drive setup http://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972?tstart=0
- click the embedded picture in Harm's message to enlarge to reading size
- you need AT LEAST 2 drives for video editing, 3 is better
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Read Hunt on Partitions http://forums.adobe.com/thread/650708?tstart=0
A link with many ideas about computer setup http://forums.adobe.com/thread/436215?tstart=0
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Hello:
I am currently trying to import a complete Premiere CS4 (version 4.2.1) project on my laptop, Windows 7 - 64bit, which doesn't have an AJA Kona 3 card installed. The detailed file specification of the source file is given further below and had been created on a system with AJA's Kona card. The source files are in an AVI wrapper, in OpenDML, with 2vuy and had been created by the AJA Kona card on a different system.
The file gets imported into Premiere, and it displays the correct file length, here of about 56mn 24s. However, I can only access the first few seconds. If I drag the video file to the timeline, I realized that every frame is present for about 2 minutes and 40 seconds, which results in about 18 seconds of the original file length. To explain it in different words - I have the same frame at position 00:00:00, 00:00:01, 00:00:02 until 02:39:24.
The original files can be properly displayed within the windows media player, which utilizes a YCbCr Codec from Drastic Technology Inc. Therefore, I strongly believe that the source files aren't corrupted. What should I do now?
BR
Filmemacher
General
Complete name :
H:\PZ05\116_PZ05\pz05\Captured Video\main 03.avi
Format :
AVI
Format/Info :
Audio Video Interleave
Format profile :
OpenDML
File size :
65.4 GiB
Duration :
56mn 24s
Overall bit rate :
166 Mbps
Video
ID :
0
Format :
2vuy
Codec ID :
2vuy
Duration :
56mn 24s
Bit rate :
2 539 Kbps
Width :
720 pixels
Height :
576 pixels
Display aspect ratio :
5:4
Frame rate :
25.000 fps
Standard :
PAL
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) :
0.245
Stream size :
1.00 GiB (2%)

Hello Filmemacher,
AJA has a QuickTime Codec out for the Format you need. The Codec is free and the File can be played/exported through QuickTime (Pro Version only). Another Solution is the Drastic Codec Suite that has all the AJA/Kona, DVS, Optibase Codecs plus the normal ones from Windows (IYUV, I420, UYVY, YUY2, YVYU) in one Codec. The download Link has been updated with the new Versions on the Drastic Website. The Drastic Codec works for AVI in Windows and MOV for QuickTime for encoding and decoding Films. I use them myself for a long Time now without any Problems.
Please note: There are some Links to old Versions of the Drastic/Optibase Codecs in the Internet, mainly in Eastern Countrys. Stay away from them because of many Virus alerts and unstable outdated Versions.
Best regards, Mickey
Here is the Link to Download the new Version 3.4 with Vista/7/8 64 Bit Support:
http://www.drastictech.com/download_codec.html
Other Platforms supported: Windows 9x/SE/ME/NT/2K/XP/Vista/7 (all 32 Bit)
QuickTime for Windows 4/5/6/7 and Later (32 Bit)

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