I mean, what’s wrong with a lot of red?
Btw I do wanna say that I do think this is my favorite implementation of SC 38 into ANH, you did a good job.
Thank you! 😃 That means a lot!
Yeah, there’s nothing inherently wrong with those shots being red (I actually really liked that FXitinpost made that decision to make the color much more red. I only noticed it after taking a crack at color grading everything.), but I just wanted to make everything as seamless as I could in my edit. The next part after Vader and Obi-Wan cross their blades is non-reimagined footage (the part where Han and Chewie approach the hangar), and the walls are their normal, greyish color. I tried both options (one where the Reimagined shots retained their reddish color, and one where they don’t), and I found it to be more satisfying and seamless to tone down the (very apparent) redness. A small price to pay for salvation. (Are we allowed to reference non-Star Wars material here? lol.)
I even color graded Hal’s footage (specifically the footage surrounding the fight) as to not sacrifice too much color in the Reimagined shots. Kinda had to strike as much of a balance as I could.
I did also color grade more of Hal’s footage; in all of the shots during and after the Padme’s Funderal song (up to the Falcon escaping), I desaturated and toned down the color and added some vignetting to the shots, since at that part of the Reimagined fight the colors are supposed to be desaturated. Hal’s footage was super colorful compared to the colors in the ending of SC 38 Reimagined.