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"The moment you try to"re-paint" or modify such a thing, it is supposed to crash to pieces. And this is what has happened to "The Dying of the Light" - an unpleasant and tragic demonstration of the limits to the so-called wonders of digital post-production. By surgically eliminating the expressionistic color from the image - the pasty yellow-green of the African scenes, the dense sepia-chocolate of the American ones, and the bluish-green from the European ones - an unknown author has offered the public not only a crippled caricature of everything, but a collection of images deprived of soul, emotion and significance.""

A few youtube gems on color grading a David Fincher movie. About 5 minutes into the Panic Room featurette world class colorist Stephen Nakamura color corrects a few shots. The two part Se7en featurettes are all of Stephen colour correcting the end scene from the film.

A lot of journal articles on Colour

BT.500 : Methodology for the subjective assessment of the quality of television pictures

Volume 7, issue 1 of this Journal seems to have a few articles about the use of colour in films. You can get full access to the articles through the Shibboleth link

"Citation Information. Journal of British Cinema and Television. Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 82-94, ISSN 1743-4521, Available Online April 2010 . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/E1743452109001356"

If you can find the article even better! "Bride DL, Crowell SE, Baucom BR, Kaufman EA, O'Connor CG, Skidmore CR, & Yaptangco M (2014). Testing the Effectiveness of 3D Film for Laboratory-Based Studies of Emotion. PLoS ONE, 9 (8) PMID: 25170878"

Something for Jacob

Film fans might have noticed a colour revolution in cinema recently, because Hollywood seems to gave gone teal-and-orange crazy. Studio films from Hot Tub Time Machine to Iron Man 2 have used the combination, with the greenish-blue teal forming a backdrop and the orange (which includes flesh tones) in the foreground.

If anyone still need content for the lit review here's some interesting info on the unusual grade for Inside Llewyn Davis

If 2013 was the year of the selfie, then 2014 is the year of the hyper-short film. Today, people don't just watch films in cinemas or living rooms. Instead, the term "movies" takes on a new connotation, as people download and consume on the move: on foot, or on the train, sometimes with just seconds to spare, as the content flows through their Facebook or Twitter streams on their mobile devices.

Whether it's Vine, Instagram Video or Keek the popularity of micro video is changing the social media landscape. Our panellists discuss the practicalities of creating these super short videos and how they can be used to enhance the social media activity around your production.

Very useful book when shooting in Raw. It offers a whole chapter on how to colour grade RAW in DaVinci Resolve. The book is available online through the UoS library and I have also added it to the Dropbox folder

Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving images, from hand painting in early skirt dance films to current trends in digital color manipulation. The book is available to view online through the UoS library

This book is available from the UoS library to view online

Good video that provides an introduction to colour theory, using colour in storytelling and colour symbolism within film

This book has a chapter on 'Color and Meaning' in which the importance of colour is discussed in (mainly) paintings, stories and text. It's nearly 60 years old but is still useful for colour symbolism.