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Acheiving the 60’s look
Hello, i’m using after effects cs3 and I am trying to acheive the look of a 60’s film. When I say “look”, i’m not talking about clothes and cars, I mean through the way the cameras pulled in color and lighting.
A good example of what i’m looking for is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm3kqis8YGsPlease let me know if you can help me.
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4 Replies
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Hi,
A great deal of that comes down to the type of film stock used and how that film was then developed. (And great lighting and cinematography of course)
Depending on your source, you can get a decent approximate look using the bundled After Effect colour correction plug-ins. You’ll need to do both primary and secondary corrections to get your grade looking good.
Coincidentally enough, I’m about to release an After Effects presets package called “Film Wash” that does just that. :o) I’ve used these on a number of projects and they work really well.
All the best,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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Those were good movies. I ported this tutorial over to After Effects pretty well. There were some things in AE that didn’t work like they do in Photoshop, but that’s where blatant copying leads to creativity.
https://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/photoshop_vintage_effect/
Good luck.
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Thanks for the tutorial, and I will check out that preset, because getting the washed look is what was causing my problems.
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Try the hue/saturation effect and play with the color channels. One good way to decrease the saturation of an individual color is, not to desaturate it, but instead raise the luminosity value. I did some tests and worked fine for the greens and blues (sky and ground). The tricky thing of that 60s look is the “flattened” color that the skin tone had. Didn´t find an easy way to get it.
Also you can try this: get a frame of an old movie (I just googled one), sample a color from the skin (I got Red 231, Green 176 and Blue 153) and create a solid layer with this color. Then, change the color mode of this new layer to “color” and reduce the opacity until you like it (around 40%, maybe). This method affects the color of the whole scene, but depending of you source material it could work.
Anyway, I am sure using a preset will be easier, but is nice to get dirty sometimes. Good luck.
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