Teal and orange, make it stop!

Batutta

Batutta

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Was watching Zookeeper with my daughter and was appalled by the color grading. Everyone looked like they spent all day in the mystic tanning booth--

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Funny, was just talking about this again the other day.

Considering doing it on the feature as well, because let's face it.. the look sells.
 
Kholi said:
Funny, was just talking about this again the other day.

Considering doing it on the feature as well, because let's face it.. the look sells.
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If you're doing like a sci-fi action thing I can tolerate it. But a family film?
 
And what is it I always say??????? Being a film-maker destroys your ability to just go out and watch a film just for entertainment like everyone else. LOL, case in point.

Trust me Battuta, I am there with you, though on different subjects. But we are forever destroyed from ever watching a film like the general public does. I bet maybe.....1-2 people, including yourself thought about that aspect during your showing. For me, it's weapons and tactics.

That's why I had to stop going to movies unless the subject really interested me. I always ended up with a bloody tongue.......from biting it so hard.
 
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Kholi said:
... let's face it.. the look sells.
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That's a sad reality. More infos here.
Now what? People think that if they color correct their footage to something that looks like that, their short will looks more "cinematic"...
I personally color grade my shorts when I'm doing them, but as far as I know, I never did something like that. I'm no pro, but I hope I haven't fallen into that abyss...
 
Doc Bernard said:
My last one was "Saving Private Ryan". They almost got me with "Battle: LA"
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1) And say that Saving Private Ryan had some hard color grading in it. Nice job to Janusz Kaminski & Spielberg on that one.
2) Why's that? I thought it wasn't "that bad" for something served so many times. Nothing new, certainly not refreshing, but quite a good guilty pleasure!
 
Certain color palettes define certain time periods in cinema. The 50's had pastels, 60's had vibrant color, 70's had earthy tones. Is this our Teal and Orange phase?
 
It wouldn't bother so much if the skin tones looked remotely natural, but they're so orange it took me out of the film...Not that it was any great loss, it was Zookeeper, but still.
 
I like Teal and Orange when the pros do it. When I see it done on indie videos on Youtube, it always seem too much and unbalanced. On most Hollywood movies though, it's done smoothly enough that I don't just keep noticing it.
 
it's too apparent for everyone, it gets you out of the story and doesn't add anything to it. color correction, art direction, wardrobe and location choices should make sense, add to the movie or at least not distract you from it.

skin tones are not dark orange/brown added to desaturated crushed blacks.
with only blue in the background.

if you can tell someone should look pale white, and looks almost like a tanning accident went extreme in a sitcom episode, it's jarring for anyone.

something like bay movies are excellent examples, he shifts everything to extreme levels of blue and brown. after choosing to make any location or wardrobe choice blue.

i think when comedies made by genesis go to extremes with skin tones and sharpness, it add murky gray to the orange/brown skin tones (looks like an inverted curve murkiness).

but that's different than choosing to shoot normal looking skin tones at the beach or ocean with normal looking ocean or sea colors, that's more close to vibrant 'happy' colors. something comedies could consider.
 
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