Sin City visual style

[X o Zelig o X]

I finally watched sin city, Good movie. I was wondering if anyone knows just how the whole visual style of it was done? Like how blood is white and brighter then everything else, And how they made certain colors stand out while everything else was b+w? Like how blondies red dress was still red and her hair was blonde while everything was b+w? How is this achieved?

Thanks.

~mikey~

[Matty2phatty]

I would have imagined it was done in the same way as Pleasantville, though the way they did it sounded VERY painful to achieve.

The other possibility is some kind of filter that removes all colour except for the one they want.

[EP]

there is a filter on FCP that can have the same effect of pleasantville [everything is b/w cept for one colour] though ive personally never got it to work

[sn-films]

First, Sin City was shot entirely on HiDef which made it easy for Rodriguez to go nuts with the digital effects.

To do the hybrid Color/Black and white look in most of the film, its easy enough to replicate with many NLE's... I use MediaStudio Pro, but I would assume that Premiere has the same capability. In MSP, add the "Color Pass" filter onto a clip and use the eye-dropper tool to pick the color from the shot that you want to preserve. Done.

Alternatively, add one clip onto your timeline and add a video filter to make the clip black-and-white. Then add the same clip on top of the first clip and do the opposite of blue-screen/chromakey overlay... key out everything EXCEPT the color you want to preserve.

We used both of the above techniques for some of the fantasy/dream sequences in 'Randy'...

Hello Nurse


For the following, I did a version of the chromakey overlay to preserve hints of skintone...

Marilyn Monroe

As for making the blood white in a few shots, I thought I read somewhere that they used milk.

Hope this helps.

[curtinparloe]

They didn't use the pleasantville method for it, as it would have been a pain.

http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=57c...47&page=1]this article[/URL] will tell you all you need to know, particularly the gifs on pages 4 and 5...

[X o Zelig o X]

Thanks for the help guys. This should help, and if it doesnt... well id be an idiot.

What i plan of using this style for is for a graffiti movie im thinking about making. I want certain colors to show like the colors of the spraypaint in a certain scene. Anyways.

Thanks.

~mikey~

[Vertino]

Watched Sin City a few weeks ago... thought it was amazing!

Found this webpage that shows a comparison between comic and film.