How do they do that?
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The other answers aren’t really for 5 year olds so I’ll give it a go…
Think of a colouring in book…
The crew film the black and white outline of the picture.
(shoot in a format that would be really washed out if you looked at it.)
Then the colourist/editor does the colouring in.
(The footage looks washed out and almost black and white when they get it, but the image contains a lot of information about the actual colours filmed, and the colourist uses software to manipulate this information until they get the look required.)
Now for a 15 year old:
The format used is usually a form of LOG format… Think of it like RAW from a stills camera.
RAW looks a lot less vibrant than say a JPEG that you might take with your phone… But if you want to manipulate your JPEG, there is only so much you can do before the whites are too white, or you introduce noise, or the colours get muddy.
With RAW or LOG, the image looks flat and boring, but you can manipulate so much more than a JPEG, so you can make all sorts of style of image because the format contains so much more information about the difference between all of the details of the image than a JPEG does.
Now for a 20 year old:
Basically a video version of Photoshop. Cheers.
Depends on what you mean by hue, but in general there’s a position called production designer that is responsible for maintaining the overall tone and consistancy of the film. Like making sure all the set, costume, props, effects, etc guys are using appropriate colors, texture and architecture. Usually there will be some sketches or mood boards, then the different departments will flesh out the details, and the prod designer will look over it all and approve/reject different things.
They first record with almost zero contrast and low saturation. The sequence is then edited on software like Davinci Resolve or other tools designed for the color correction.
They use LUTs. Or look up tables that take one color from rgb and change it to another color. It’s like a filter they apply over the film.
The footage is shot on a camera thar record the raw files (actually in film it’s call log, but raw makes more sense in this explanation so I’ll stick to it). Raw means it’s the data that image sensor captures, without any modifications. It looks ‘bland’, contrast and saturation of colors are low but that’s the file with most information about the image.
Then in post-production, after editing, comes color correction where everything is tuned to something uniform acceptable to watch. All the highlights are on a certain level, darks on their own level. Colors are restored to what might be called ‘normal’.
Then comes the color grading part, and that’s where director, DoP and colorist tune the mood and looks of the film. Certain colors are saturated more or less and made lighter or darker and maybe even tinted to other colors. And that’s done scene by scene.
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