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yotsuya
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Info: Star Wars color grading - thoughts
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13-Dec-2016, 12:32 PM

My take on the colors is that the GOUT and 97 SE broadcasts all seem to be taken from interprositive prints. They all share an redish-orange tinting that doesn’t seem to be completely compensated for. In my experience compensating for the natural tint of the interpositive is something that falls inside an acceptable spectrum or outside. Compared to other movies that have fallen outside, these are definitely inside, though the SE segments for ANH seem to be scanned with different settings and fall outside or the color balance wasn’t done well when making the interprositive. We’d need to archive a 35mm print of that one to tell for sure.

Many of the same problems plague TPM. The scans of the original theatrical cut are all redish-orange and over cropped.

ATOC was shot digitally and the effects were done digitally. And it looks like the color choices have remained consistent.

There was a leak of ROTS just before the movie hit theaters. It is low resolution, but the colors match the DVD and BR, so this film, done entirely digital, is true to the original, though it shows a yellow tint throughout that I think was present in the original film, but it means the blockade runner scenes don’t match ANH.

TFA was shot on film, edited digitally. The blue-ray is over saturated and the reds are too intense compared to the digital download of the trailers from YouTube. It kind of matches the blue-ray of ANH, the most messed up of the trilogy on blue-ray.