You don’t always consider it when you watch movies, but you are being manipulated by color. Think about Wes Anderson’s pastel films, or the vibrant tropical birds in nature documentaries. The real ...

When a crew wraps on the shooting of a film, a cinematographer’s work is still far from finished — he has to color correct the whole thing. In this video, cinematographer Daryn Okada (“Mean Girls,” ...

Colorist Joe Gawler of Harbor Pictures has worked on a number of films and television shows over the years, including A Most Violent Year, Midnight in Paris and Arrival. For Wonderstruck, Gawler had ...

Whether it’s Wes Anderson’s vibrant color palette in “The Grand Budapest Hotel” or the comic-styled color disruptions of Robert Rodriguez’s “Sin City,” the color of a film sets its mood and tone. Film ...

From the astounding shift to Technicolor in “The Wizard of Oz” to the blockbuster teal-and-orange color scheme made famous by “Transformers,” color grading is used to improve the visual aesthetic of ...

Here's another chance to read our review of the amazing Film Convert. (Note that this was first published in November 2013). Even in a world dominated by pixels and the "new aesthetic" there are a ...

It pays to know what you are talking about! In our continuing series on basic colour correction, we decipher some of the most common terminology used in the grading suite. Our previous articles in ...