How to get the Moonrise Kingdom look?

If you can wait for it, the footage from the DBolex looks just like that. At least the beach video did.
 
Get into your blue curves in Resolve and try pulling different parts of the line downwards. This will introduce yellow tones into either your shadows, midtones or highlights depending on where you put them. I'd say that's the key to the look, a little added yellow - you just need to put it in the right place.
 
Grug said:
Get into your blue curves in Resolve and try pulling different parts of the line downwards. This will introduce yellow tones into either your shadows, midtones or highlights depending on where you put them. I'd say that's the key to the look, a little added yellow - you just need to put it in the right place.
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On my display, it appears that most of the 'daytime' shots are 1) yellow cast, 2) 'washed' out contrast.

While not as 'wash out' as some examples I've seen here, there doesn't seem to be many shots with a clean 'black', nor any significant portion of the shots have 'dark color'. If the film wasn't made by a fancy dancy auteur, I'd say most of the shots were muddy in the shadows. But since it was made by such, I'll have to say... the shadows are pretty muddy...

I'm sure the style was chosen for it's 'hazy nostalgic rite of passage' look.

That said, whether a DSLR captured film could be graded to similar effects may be questionable... since from IMDB "Moonrise Kingdom"(2012) was shot on 16mm, Kodak Vision 3 (200T), and then scanned for post. Don't know whether they used any filters to adjust for 'daylight', but I'd think they would since the overall result is 'yellow', and to dial that in with post seems to me to be extreme... perhaps a combo of in camera color cast, and 'enhancement' in post.
 
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Hard to say whether it was filtration, colour timing on the negative or all added in a DI (I haven't stumbled across any ASC articles or-the-like about the production). I wouldn't be at all surprised if they used old Cooke glass to add in most of that yellow.

I agree it's probably a combination of in-camera and post. Wes Anderson is always so specific with his look I have no doubt it was all firmly established before they ever shot a roll.
 
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