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Bizarre Grainless + Garishly Saturated Look of the Film

posted 9 years ago by Psinex6
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I saw Kill Me Three Times last night at the Cinequest Film Festival. Mildly entertaining film, although Simon Pegg was stellar as usual. One thing that drove me mad was the look of the film. I've seen HD films that had no visible grain, but this film not only was grainless apart from a few dark shots, but the colors were garishly oversaturated with no attempt at giving it a film-like look, apart from the occasional shallow depth of field shots. If this is the future look of movies we have to look forward to, I feel sorry for future generations. Watching this film was like trying to pet a hairless cat.

[–] bill-1075 9 years ago

Depends on if the film was shot or converted to actual chemical film stock or was only ever on digital.

From what I've seen it looks like it was shot using very high definition digital cameras and shown digitally (so no grain).

Grain only shows up on chemical film stock (or it's added to digital films in post if it looks to 'clean' for the directors liking.)

[–] Dan_Garten 9 years ago

Interesting.

[–] fedrulez 9 years ago

Grain is a side effect of older technology. It's like wanting to have the scratch of a needle on a high resolution audio track. Also makes compressing the video very hard for streaming services.

I loved the look of the film and hope we get more digital shooting.

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[–] seans_life 9 years ago

Psinex6 what in the heck are you talking about? For the most part it looked and sounded absolutely fine. Man you must be involved in the industry or took some college programs or university courses about film making because all I saw was a movie that looked proper. It looked like a big picture production although I will say that there was an explosion or maybe even two that looked odd. I think there were computer generated effects that weren't so great for the car going off the cliff but really it is reaching to say it was horrible enough to take away from a very interesting movie. Also Psinex6 if you can't appreciate films being shot in different formats and think that HD is what it all should be about you really are missing the point with film making. Content/story/acting is top priority and this movie had it. Also quite frankly I hope film makers go back to shooting film in older formats/ways as it gives certain movies the right look and when they try to fake it while using new tech it often looks poor. Anyway Kill Me Three Times is definitely a movie worth watching and I'd recommend it to people for sure.

[–] ChefLucretia 9 years ago

Op- why are so many people fixated with color saturation see days?

[–] Psinex6 8 years ago

I've been shooting digital since 2006 when one of the first affordable solid state non-tape digital HD cameras, the Panasonic HVX-200 was released. I was shooting 16mm film before that on a Bolex and Arri SR.

My issue with the look of this film was that it was so clean that it looked flat and static, where it looks like nothing is moving. It had a very strange effect on the skin tones, where nothing looked natural. This hyper-saturated color look made the yellows and reds pop. But it also had some strange chroma issues, where the outlines and shadows looked saturated as well. So you could say that I wasn't a big fan of the color correction/grading on this film.

As far as the performances, I thought that they were either very wooden ala Hemsworth brother #3 or horrific overacting by the dentist guy or whoever it was. Theresa Palmer wasn't bad, and Simon Pegg was perfect.

I don't mind films being shot in different formats, but this one didn't feel congruous as far as technology and artistic style go. But to each is their own.

[–] chilone (17241) 6 years ago

I suggest you stop smoking your lunch.

[–] R_Redbeard 9 years ago

This looked like it was inspired by Italian giallo with the neons and gorey blood spraying. Not sure if that was intentional but homages to those films almost always look better...and usually are better across the board.

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