color & contrast of reversal film, vol. 2: three kings

[annalouwho]

REVERSAL FILM is a certain kind of film stock - used rarely - that really saturates colors (when used with color), deepens the blacks, and blows out the whites. it also has a grainy quality to it and can make for some pretty crazy-looking images... and i love it. and i want everyone to love it too, so i'm going to picspam for you a few awesome

Comments

[fairchilds]

Thanks for that small blurb, I never knew that there was a term for this style. Do you know any other films that use this style?

[annalouwho]

volume three of my little project will be the firefly episode "out of gas", and volume four will be the movie domino. i know buffalo '66 was also shot on reversal, and i believe so were wolverine's flashbacks/nightmares in the x-men movies.

[fairchilds]

Wow, how do you know this? Is it just by observation? Or research?

[annalouwho]

well, i was a film major in college, and one of my friends made a student film that she shot on color reversal film, so that's when i first learned what it really was. i can recognize it pretty well when i see it, but it isn't used very often.

[fairchilds]

I see, wow, that's really cool!