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NeverarGreat
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Neverar's A New Hope Technicolor Recreation (Final Version Released!)
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19-Jan-2017, 2:01 PM

Just my two cents, since this is still my thread (I think 😉) - In discussing this shot with someone who happens to have a degree in technical theater and was a stage manager for some years, they say that green is never used to light a scene unless you want someone to look like a witch or a zombie, and the green gels are very expensive, so you’d get chewed out if you tried to use one outside of those applications.

I don’t know as much about the film side of things, but I bet the same principles apply. A green look could easily be achieved in the color timing step, and there was probably a concerted effort to avoid green in shots, especially with the Technicolor process that shifted things to green anyway. All this points to normal white/yellow/blue/red lights being used.

My philosophy is to grade an entire location so that objects in it appear the same color in every shot. I can’t imagine that the filmmakers wanted a wildly different look for different shots in the same location, so this corridor shot has a green tone like the rest of the shots in this scene. It’s not overpowering, but it’s there.

I should also mention that this part of the film has been completed and rendered for quite some time, so it’s not like I’m going to go back and work on it again. You’re welcome to continue debating the intricacies of color grading and production lighting in this shot, but I don’t really see the point now. 😃