On Friday night I went and saw the movie 300, I wasn't expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised, particularly by the visual effects and the use of colour for different moods.
So for anyone else who has seen this movie, do you have any idea how the visual colours and styles were achieved? I looks like they use selective colouring and a high contrast in most shots, some similar in effect to cross processing but with a different colouration.
Any ideas? I have some fighting stills that it would be interesting to emulate this sort of look with.
I suspect they did the same thing as they did for Oh Brother, Where Out Though. As memory serves, that was the first movie to ever be digitally processed. Granted, for 300, it was all filmed on bluescreen too....so the backgrounds are all made up. I would think they then went in and selectively desaturated skin tones and upped the amount of red in the capes. The blood effects got to be too cheesy a CG effect IMO.
