Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince (Dont worry this isn't a spoiler)

I saw the film earlier today and I quite liked it except one big thing. It was a very yellow film. Is it just me or is every director in hollywood fascinated in making there films a single colour. Now before you go off on Oh he likes harry potter you should know that I read the first book when I was 10 and have been a fan ever since. But come on IT WAS YELLOW. I sense a future fan edit will be in order. If no one does it I might. But it needs colour correction. Come on the first film had brilliant colour. The Prisoner Of Azkaban was blue. But blue isn't such a bad colour. But yellow? Would any body like to elaborate on these films? To me they are each great films but a great film should be more about the mood of the story than the colour LOL.

No it was directed by david yates. He isn't too well known. But he directed the last 2 HP movies so far.

I think it was incredible desaturated (its hard to talk serious when you're wearing bright colors, I'm sure), but I don't recall it being one color dominating.  Maybe grey... ;-)

 I don't like the gimmicky movement of either having a single dominating color like muting colors in films or desaturation any more than i like the artificilially brightened and bumped up ten zillion notches blown out colors in films.

I hated the blue and green tint in the lord of the rings, that was the only thing i hated about the films.

I also hated the way Indiana Jones Crystal Skull looked with what a green or yellowish grey through the whole film purposely to give it a comic book look.

Then you have films with almost no lighting to speak of. 

And films with lense flares like star trek that ruin a movie and could induce a seizure in certain people.

Then you have films with severaly poor audio mixes where the dialogue sound effects and music are all on different volumes and really don't mix together at all and really only the point is to make the films sound louder as if louder was better somehow.

skyjedi2005 said:

Then you have films with severaly poor audio mixes where the dialogue sound effects and music are all on different volumes and really don't mix together at all and really only the point is to make the films sound louder as if louder was better somehow.

You mean Star Wars? :-p

skyjedi2005 said:

 I don't like the gimmicky movement of either having a single dominating color like muting colors in films or desaturation any more than i like the artificilially brightened and bumped up ten zillion notches blown out colors in films.

Yeah that seems to be the craze now a days.

I hated the blue and green tint in the lord of the rings, that was the only thing i hated about the films.

I don't know why they did that. The shire was beautiful.

I also hated the way Indiana Jones Crystal Skull looked with what a green or yellowish grey through the whole film purposely to give it a comic book look.

That bothered me more than anything. If you are going to make a series of films they have to have continuity.

Then you have films with almost no lighting to speak of. 

And I hate them too. You have to adjust the brightness in some horror movies to see why people are screaming

And films with lense flares like star trek that ruin a movie and could induce a seizure in certain people.

I was lens flare crazy at one time but Star Treks LOL. It was like they added it in from photoshop

Then you have films with severaly poor audio mixes where the dialogue sound effects and music are all on different volumes and really don't mix together at all and really only the point is to make the films sound louder as if louder was better somehow.

I cant watch a scary movie at night. I sit with my finger on the volume button. Like signs they are whispering for 10 minutes then BOOOOM an alien shows up and busts my sheetrock. I learned to love subtitles after watching movies like that.

Didn't the director of Star Trek admit he overdid it with the lens flares? At least he knows...

Also, I too hate jittery-cam action flicks.  Totally ruined Quantum of Solace for me.

bkev said:

Didn't the director of Star Trek admit he overdid it with the lens flares? At least he knows...

Also, I too hate jittery-cam action flicks.  Totally ruined Quantum of Solace for me.

Me too. It is like a monkey was working the camera in that movie.

Yeah, I definitely prefer the brighter colors of some of the previous Potter flicks. Monochroming it doesn't make it more edgy, it just makes it less visually interesting.

skyjedi2005 said:

 I don't like the gimmicky movement of either having a single dominating color like muting colors in films or desaturation any more than i like the artificilially brightened and bumped up ten zillion notches blown out colors in films.

I was watching "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" last night, a film where the director Peter Hunt made a point of showing one or multiple objects with a bold shade of purple in almost every scene. Things like, clothing, wallpaper, flowers... I don't find this practice appealing, or very creative.  It gets rather distracting after only a few scenes.

FanFiltration said:

skyjedi2005 said:

 I don't like the gimmicky movement of either having a single dominating color like muting colors in films or desaturation any more than i like the artificilially brightened and bumped up ten zillion notches blown out colors in films.

 

I was watching "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" last night, a film where the director Peter Hunt made a point of showing one or multiple objects with a bold shade of purple in almost every scene. Things like, clothing, wallpaper, flowers... I don't find this practice appealing, or very creative.  It gets rather distracting after only a few scenes.

I prefer films to have colours that are more realistic. Life isn't desaturated or filtered in green and yellow. I actually took a few snapshots from the trailer of HPTHBP and edited it in photshop. Some scenes needed a filter but all of the hogwarts shots I could make them look colourful like HP1. I will post some before and after images soon.

Please do, I'm interested in that.

I will be sending them in a jiffy.

Hmm, we are getting to the point were the desaturated colors are getting to be the norm. Give it a few more years, and we'll have directors using real colors in attempts to be unique, and movie goers will be in awe at all the pretty life-like colors.

So here it is guys. I used an HD trailer as my medium. You can tell in some spots by the pixels. If you look at the train scene LOL it looks like GL got ahold of it.

Now my process might be a little better on a full out Blu Ray release. It really depends. Using a trailer wasn't necessarily the best idea but I will not download this movie LOL. I am waiting legally to tweak it. Most of the scenes with the skull in the sky when I change the colour it does changes the whole frame. So I couldnt use that.  But I am mostly proud of my results.

Oh God, I just flashbacked to ESB with its blue snow... is this a trend now?

bkev said:

Oh God, I just flashbacked to ESB with its blue snow... is this a trend now?

Just look at the train above. Dear god when I was tweaking it I automatically thought of HOTH LOL

bad colouring aside I thought it was one of the best yet. I recommend it to everyone. Maybe i should Colour correct this one and LOTR trilogy HAHAHAHA

Darth Chaltab said:

Yeah, I definitely prefer the brighter colors of some of the previous Potter flicks. Monochroming it doesn't make it more edgy, it just makes it less visually interesting.

And isn't like they are covering any mistakes doing it that way. Look at ESB underneath all of that blue is beautiful colour just ask Ady.

I don't mind color tints when they're done well and for artistic purposes. "The Godfather" and "The Matrix" come to mind.

Desaturation I was OK with.  But that's like color-tinting, which doesn't seem right at all...