Creating Mood

[Darby Edelen]

Something as subjective and far reaching as ‘mood’ is hard to define in terms of specific effects and processes. The three films you mention are a perfect example of this, they are all similar in that they are heavily stylized… and yet they are all unique because the associated art departments decided on a very specific ‘mood’ for each film.

I think one process that you might be interested in is a Bleach Bypass (try searching for this on the Cow), but other than that it really depends on what ‘mood’ you’re looking for.

[Steve]

You should investigate both:

Magic Bullet [url]https://redgiantsoftware.com/mabued.html[/url]
&
Film Magic Pro [url]https://videocopilot.net/fmp.html[/url]

[Mark Fogarty]

Andrew Kramer has a great little tutorial on how to achieve the Sin City look. It came free with the purchase of his “Serious Effects & Compositing” training dvd.