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- You can absolutely grade modern footage to look like this if you want to, I think the degree to which pre-digital grades wound up looking better is a reflection of how the lack of flexibility in post forced them to be more careful and creative on set bsky.app/profile/jaye...
- Also a lot of stuff people like about pre-digital aesthetic is the imperfections with film and adding that stuff back into a color grade to the same extent they were present in pre-digital grades feels cheesy and goofy to filmmakers
- Yes. (j-salvo is a professional colorist and knows this stuff better than I do) bsky.app/profile/j-sa...
- I think the problem is that the presence of flexibility in posts produces a level of cautiousness. You can punch up the contrast on anything, but then the comments are always “can we get more detail in the shadow”, “can we get the highlights down a touch” and then eventually you end up here.
- One other thing is that often people compare like marvel movies today with mid-lower budget one off movies from before, which is unfair, the big studio properties have like 400 people all staking their part, so of course it ends up with the lowest common denominator look.
- Backdraft was not a big budget, relatively low risk and studios used to just let people “try stuff” back then. Just to see if it works. No one is going to let someone “try stuff” with the look of a $1B enterprise. There’s punchier looks in the lower stakes productions.
