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Post #1438561

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GMatias
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Star Wars: Serialized (WiP)
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Date created
5-Jul-2021, 11:15 PM

BrotherOfSasquatch said:

Very interesting. I think the black and white looks pretty gorgeous.

However, if I were to be super nitpick-y… Seeing that you said you were wanting to make it look like something akin to the Flash Gordon serials or Kurosawa’s B&W films, I feel like the color grading has a bit too much contrast. It makes it look more modern B&W rather than B&W from the 30s/50s. However, if you’re happy with it, I won’t complain!

Also, are you going to add grain onto the film? I’m just curious.

If you can’t be (respectfully) nitpicky here, where can you be? 😃

I know I wanted to use B&W overall for several reasons: (1) to differentiate this from other edits in a way I still think looks cool, (2) to pay homage to the franchise’s Flash Gordon & Kurosawa roots, and definitely (3) as a way to make the use of the Force in different situations stand out in different ways, as you can see some of in that clip.

I also know that I didn’t want to make these movies look TOO different from their original incarnations. Weird coming from someone taking out all the color, I know. But in my non-professional, uneducated opinion, these were films designed to look good in contrasting colors, so I tried to retain as much of the contrast in B&W values as I could to compensate for losing the color values. Which isn’t to say the older, less contrasty B&W films don’t look good! These just looked better to me with this kind of approach.

(And BTW - the Kylo/Rey footage was extra contrasty for dramatic reasons. I kept the Rey/Luke scene in that clip specifically to show the whole movie wasn’t quite that chiaroscuro.)

It was also super important to me that whatever look I chose was as easy to apply as possible, given the amount of footage involved. I tried out some Lumetri presets and settled on this one as a good overall option. I already have WAY too many rabbit holes to avoid going down (or not) to get this project out the door – anything I can actually set & forget at this point is appreciated!

FOLLOWUP QUESTION FOR FOLKS WATCHING THE CLIP
How was the timing & readability of the subtitles?

I tried to make them conform to the Japanese audio timing a little tighter than the standard timings but still be onscreen long enough to read. Anyone have problems following along?