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This trend is not really new, and it actually goes both ways: when you want a darker tone, you desaturate the colors and go for a "colder" color palette, when y
by rob74 5y ago
This trend is not really new, and it actually goes both ways: when you want a darker tone, you desaturate the colors and go for a "colder" color palette, when you want to get all warm and fuzzy (think romance movies, soap operas etc.) you use a "warmer" palette and crank up the saturation a bit. But this already annoyed me back in the early 2000s: CSI New York had a "cold" color palette, CSI Miami a warmer one, although (or more likely because) they were both mostly filmed in and around L.A.
- Joker_vD 5y agoAlso, everything in Mexico has yellowish tint.
- nwatson 5y agoThe great film "Traffic" (explores drug use and trafficking and implications from many angles) used a similar strategy ... US scenes brightly colored and clear, Latin America scenes washed out and grainy.
- rconti 5y agoThe US scenes were more than just brightly colored and clear, they also had a very blueish tint to them. It all felt very clean, clinical, sanitized, to the yellows of Mexico and further south.
- mabub24 5y agoI like to see a return to technicolor vibrancy in some media IP. Some directors, like PTA, still use it to great effect, but when you watch some old Powell and Pressburger films, or Bad Day at Blackrock, or even Purple Noon, you see these beautiful colours that don't assault your eyes in neon brightness; instead, you get these beautiful rich tones that seem solid and deep. It seems like now a lot of colourists just go for overwrought colourgrading, insanely crushed blacks, or slamming a movie into blue-orange land.
- pavlov 5y agoHBO’s brand new “Station Eleven” makes excellent use of color IMO. Lots of beautiful nature shots, no conspicuously digital color correction. Color is an important narrative element through cinematography and production design rather than “let’s slather blue here in post to make it dramatic”. (Excellent acting too. Really love this show.)
- jl6 5y agoDisney animation is now the home of color, where every frame has every color and a good chance of featuring a literal rainbow.
- pjc50 5y agoBad Day at Blackrock is just a tremendous film. A social justice Western from 1955 starring Spencer Tracey? For more technicolour scenery (albeit mostly painted!) I enjoyed Black Narcissus https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3210478105?playlistId=tt0039192&ref_=tt_ov_vi https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3210478105?playlistId=tt0039192...
- antux 5y agoI second this. Technicolor was amazing and I miss it. It made watching old classic movies from the 60's and 70's more enjoyable. Nothing today compares to the vibrant, rich tones technicolor brings.
- varelse 5y agoDecades before that I used to be able to tell whether a show was on NBC, ABC, or CBS by the brightness and color balance. Now everything is murky because the networks don't really have their signature looks anymore and there are so many of them.