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Post #1058019

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DrDre
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The theatrical colors of the Star Wars trilogy
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22-Mar-2017, 2:00 PM

NeverarGreat said:

The frames I have include some of the Death Star Walls, which look as green as the ones you have. In my discussion with Mike Verta, he said that the green cast was not really accurate. It certainly wasn’t that green on set. His version was much more of a blue-green, but it’s a tricky thing to get right. My version makes the walls almost gray in the brighter areas, falling off into a greenish blue (slightly more green than blue) in the shadows, as Technicolor tends to do.

I now have some 1,500 frames with another 500 underway. Most of the Deathstar wall shots do tend towards blue in the frames I have, but some of the darker ones like this one seem more neutral tending towards green depending on the lighting conditions. The exact colors are difficult to assess without a calibrated color reference. Given the project I’m working on, whether the colors were different on set is not really very relevant for me. I’m trying to establish/reproduce the technicolor print colors. I first want to establish and record the unadjusted print colors, unencumbered by interpretation, personal taste, etc. I’m also still hoping, I will be able to attend a technicolor print screening in the next few months to make some comparisons.