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[JPNola]

I stumbled across a piece of video on youtube which has a look that I found interesting. The look isn't likely anything intentional and, going by the nature of the series of videos, is probably just amateur happenstance. But ,either way, I really like the look:

1:31 mark and onward.

What's going on there? There is a green cast but not, imo, in a bad way if you are doing something stylized. The green foliage has a silvery-green cast to it that is different from the green-cast you get under fluorescent lights. It almost has a Technicolor look happening. The crazily over-saturated look will likely cause some of you to cringe, but I like it. It is in some ways the complete opposite of the milky and desaturated "s-log" look that is the current fad.

Even if you hate the look, would you be able to re-produce it? What do you speculate took place to end up with that end result? For those of you who know post, is this something you could re-produce in post using footage that was "properly" white-balanced in acquisition? The video is "normal" prior to the 1:31 mark. As if the shooter did something unintentionally whacky to the camera settings after shooting the intro with the host of the series.

 

[puredrifting]

Looks like it would be pretty easy in Film Convert or Magic Bullet. I am not a good enough colorist to tell you specifically how to achieve it but I know some colorists who could nail this look in :30. I'd never try to get that look in camera, it's too extreme and if you changed your mind, you would be hosed.

 

[Liam Hall]

Looks like cross processing, probably trying to emulate the look of Soviet era telly.

I think I've shot in that park (wasn't filming Russian girls though)...

 

[Run&Gun]

The crazily over-saturated look will likely cause some of you to cringe, but I like it. It is in some ways the complete opposite of the milky and desaturated "s-log" look that is the current fad.

I would take this "look" any day over the current US(?) trend of this "tinted, milky, hazy, full-screen-flare" crap that is so prevelant in national commercial spots, right now. When will this love affair with "log type" images go the F away. I'm not talking about acquisition, I'm talking about the final product. But its probably going to swing too far to the other side and we'll end up with a few years of "insanely over saturated, 'bad color', too contrasty" images.

What's the possibility that they just screwed up the WB in-camera and this was their attempt to fix it?

 

[morgan_moore]

it is interesting, chuck a frame into resolve, eyeball the scopes and go for a match, import your own frame of some one in the park, go to work.

The green is high (hue vs lum) but not saturated (hue vs sat) - the controls are there for you to play with.


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And yes RNG faux log is awful.


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[charliemcdanger]

3:03 hey take it easy, you kids!