Hugo colour grading

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Oh yeah.. nice colour grading too.
 
you'll need some seriously high end equipment to get that look. They often use the best lighting money can buy, a lot of it is in the lenses used, lighting, and filters on the lens. It looks like they've boosted the blues in the highlights but it's hard to tell if it's done in post production or is a real filter on the lens.
 
cuthbert said:
Any ideas on how to recreate?
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Yes.. become expert with studio lighting.


This isn't just something they run the footage through at the end. This is SHOT with the final vision in mind. Look at the lighting in these clips. There's clearly mixed colour temps going on, not to mention that every single millimetre of every scene is exquisitely lit.

As usual.. the answer lies with good photography, not post processing.

Some of those scenes have more than a whiff of CGI about them too.


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I've had a play around, but that doesn't quite cut it. What am i missing?
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The point. You can't fix everything, or create everything in post processing. The camera is not merely a recording device to generate raw material for post processing. Post processing should compliment the photography, not actually create it.

What you're missing is probably the great lighting, colours, make up, styling, set building, photography, casting, models/acting... the whole gamut of stuff that makes every second of that footage sing. It would pretty much be just as good without the colour grading they used... just different.


Look at it again.... but properly this time.

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Look at the clothing, sets, buildings... it's almost built and made from a palette of 2 hues.

Every single scene is like this. The final grading is just complimenting it.... not creating it.


If you think this is post processing only, you need to think again.
 
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i never thought for a second the final product is just the result of running some ordinary footage through a filter and it magically looks like that - i can see the sets and the lighting have been designed *for* the look, but nonetheless, it has been processed digitally and if you watch the whole film that much is obvious - there is more going on than just lighting.

if you take a look at another martin scorsese - aviator - you'll see he went for a very similar look to hugo in some scenes, but the grading in hugo is more complex, i can see that the shadow, midtones and highlights have all been maliciously tweaked to get the final look, it's similar to technicolor strip 2 but there are some intricacies i can't quite get my head around.

i will keep digging away, i think i'm getting closer.
 
Of course it has been post processed.. I never said it wasn't. but if you think you can get results like this from ONLY post processing.. forget it. That's all I was saying.
 
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