Topic: Trends or conspiracy

Color Balance your shot in Primary In. Then click and drag the curves and color offsets in Secondary Room to taste. That’s how I usually do things. All color grading software (or hardware) works the same way, more or less. There’s no magic.
Practice makes perfect.

Topic: Trends or conspiracy

how would I emulate the look(s) you mention?

Topic: Trends or conspiracy

Definitely I am alone…

Topic: Trends or conspiracy

You’re most definitely right about the Golden Look, but I’ve been looking into some features and their path is going towards Cold Silver Tones, specially in 4K mastered ones like Spiderman 3, and so on, not on all shots obviously, but most of them including daylight ones are Cold Silver looking, creating a more dramatic impact in the audience. So that said, I think we are going towards a Cool Wave this year… Cheers!

Topic: Trends or conspiracy

With todays Digital Intermediate workflows there should theoretically be more variation since you can change the colors in a frame in so many ways.

But I’ve been watching some trailers on the Apple website recently and the slickest trailers seems to go in the same direction:
Greenish shadows. Saturated gold/yellow midtones. Yellow/white highlights.
Watch a new music video and this color pattern emerges again.

Is there such a thing as color trends in movies? Definitely.
If you need a cool contemporary look. Just follow this formula and contribute to the color conspiracy.

Television seems to have more color variation.
Lost, Heroes, CSI. Different colors pop into your head, right?
Maybe it’s just a way to unconsciously let the audience feel at home when they watch an episode.

But when you’re in the movie theater you don’t need that distinction. So why the color uniformity?
And what do you guys think will be the next trend in color grading?

If I could choose any color scheme it would be: Greenish shadows. Gold/yellow midtones. Yellow/white highlights.

/AG