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Another teal and amber color graded movie, when will it end

posted 8 years ago by King-Of-DK
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Just watched this movie, and was so annoyed they chose to color grade this in blanket yellow, almost as bad as the last james bond movie. Why do they continue to use these stupid filters? What is wrong with natural colors?
It is a cheap ploy to make the movie seem like it was filmed in the 30s.

The use of this technique, is ruining otherwise good movies. And once you notice it, it is hard to enjoy these teal/orange graded titles of which so many have been made these last 10 years, with the last james bond as the absolut worst color graded movie of all time.

PLEASE END THIS MORONIC COLOR GRADING NOW

[–] axl7 8 years ago

I didn't notice this. Many scenes appeared to me to be in grey shades.

"Please, if you are trying to convert me, this isn't a good time"

[–] King-Of-DK 8 years ago

Then your screen is not calibrated properly, or you just dont notice it, like i mentioned, but once you are aware of the grading, you will see it everywhere. However, the "grey" parts like the begining is the teal part, it is a blue filter they use. Google teal and orange, and you will get several articles about this stupid fad.

[–] axl7 8 years ago

Then I guess I didn't notice the yellow filter, or did not find it too strong, I noticed the grey shade ( blue filter , as you say ) which I liked for snow and rain scenes.
I watched "cafè society" recently, I thought that one had a very strong orange / gold light.

"Please, if you are trying to convert me, this isn't a good time"

[–] Schweinepriester 8 years ago

Then your monitor is not calibrated properly

Don't complain if you didn't spent money on the movie.
I highly doubt that a monitor was used in a cinema, hello mr. illegal download.

[–] King-Of-DK 8 years ago

It is called an advance review copy. And ofcourse i will complain, as i am sick of the use of those yellow filters.
I dont care if it is done in post using digital grading, or a filter used during filming, result is the same, i hate it, it makes actors look like they all have yellow fever.

"soaked in that period" so the world was yellow in the 40s,imagine that, you learn something new everyday

Spectre intro is the absolut worst so far.

[–] Trax-3 8 years ago

"soaked in that period" so the world was yellow in the 40s,imagine that, you learn something new everyday

Such stylised looks have been popular since the dawn of true colour motion picture photography.

http://i.imgur.com/Olva6AZ.jpg

Art, even realist art, is rarely interested in photorealistic replication.

[–] King-Of-DK 8 years ago

I know, and that doesnt make it better. It is ok to use it sporadically, but using the teal/orange grading on every scene is annoying to me, and i hope they will stop the blanket use of it.
Every movie that uses this scheme, looks the same. Even movie posters use this scheme a lot.

It is overused.

There are a lot of articles on the subject,like this one.

https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange-and-blue/

[–] Trax-3 8 years ago

The overuse may be an issue but recently I have found the people who complain about it to be worse. Most of the arguments often come from pure ignorance, people scream "teal" at any random shade of blue or green. It's just so bloody annoying.

[–] King-Of-DK 8 years ago

Then why are you responding to a thread that annoys you?

[–] Trax-3 8 years ago

Because as much like you feel the urge to attack the movies for use of an imaginary colour scheme (the classic teal and orange look is nowhere to be found in this one as far as I remember) I feel the irresistible urge to attack and debunk the teal haters or "tealots" like I saw them called once.

What we have here are some classic choices of using brownish/sepia tones to suggest past and maybe some bluish scenes to suggest evening/nighttime (again, going by the memory here). Teal and orange that doesn't make, that look is all about creating contrasts in the frame.

[–] King-Of-DK 8 years ago

@Trax-3

Are you retarded? Debunk teal haters, wow, sepia detective in the house.

I am not "attacking the movies" i am stating a trend among certain film makers that annoy the hell out of me and a lot of other people. If this color grading wasnt a "thing" there probably wouldnt be several articles about it, but alas, there is!
And if you have even made up a name for us "teal haters" you know it is a thing, but i suspect you might be an amateur film maker with no imagination, who uses the technique to let the "dumb" audience know "now we are in the desert, so everything is yellow" because apparently the audience wont know from seeing all the sand!

I watch movies on a 123" isf calibrated projection system, and i know when i see a piss yellow skintones, the teal/orange color grading/scheme is used, it really isnt that hard to notice, and once you do, you see it everywhere.

Now, i dont mind the use of it to establish a tone or a setting in specific scenes, but a blanket use over the whole movie is too much, and it is getting old.

I really couldnt care less, if you cant accept some of us hate the technique, and the overuse of it. It is even ok if you cant see it, or refuse to notice it, i really dont care.

Facts are the facts, and the filmakers on this one even admitted the use of the color scheme, they called it a tobacco filter used during filming, because as any smoker knows, nicotine will color everything a sickly piss yellow, to establish the movie takes place in the past, well no *beep* sherlock.

The result is the same wether yoy use in camera filters or post color grading.

And yes, the opening of spectre was horrible, and is the worst teal/orange graded movie ever.

And that is the final word on that.

[–] Trax-3 8 years ago

It's not color graded to be "yellow" the filter was on the lens and the look is mostly baked into the negative.

"I wanted the movie to be soaked in that period, and decided to shoot with tobacco filters on the camera, so the film would have an immediate tonal quality on being processed.

http://motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/Blog/Blog_Post/?contentId=4294998806

[–] Schweinepriester 8 years ago

it fitted the movie.

[–] rabbitmoon 8 years ago

I remember Spectre just beimg very brown, like it had been stained in tea. Drive was very teal/orange though, almost every shot.

[–] schall1991 8 years ago

I like teal and amber. Eat my ass.