Grading the Film: Colour by Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson’s Monkey Business, (c) Brad Reid 2006
Illustration Friday topic: E is for… Entertainer
If you’re like me, then you’ve been ogling the advances in motion picture colour for some years now. Some recent standouts like Yimou Zhang’s House of Flying Daggers and Michael Mann’s Collateral express a joy of colour that makes almost everything else – and certainly almost everything from before 1995 (or around then, I would guess) – seem grey and tired by comparison. I love the colour in these movies. For my liking, their use of colour seems to go beyond mere assistance to the story – their colour seems instead to be part of their whole reason for being.