Utopia! Post-production

This blog is going to be all about post-production in the tv series Utopia. Using an article written by 'Wired' ( http://www.wired.co.uk/article/utopia-channel-4 ) I'm gonna explain how Utopia have used post-production to get a unique look for their tv show to give it a comic book feel about it by using colours.

There are 3 steps in production: pre-production, production, and post-production. Post-production is the editing after scenes have been shot and everything just has to be put together and working smoothly to give final result. Utopia uses post-production to edit the colouring using the 'three-strip technicolour process' which is usually used when in the old films when they used cinematography and coloured in each fame by hand by constructing green's, blue's and red's. However the director of Utopia (Marc Munden) wanted to use the same process but enhance the opposite colours- yellows, cyan and magenta's to give the show its bold look and eye catching appearance. The video below is a perfect example to show the shows comic book style and colour selection, as the yellow dominates the majority of every second of the video.

Before and after

These pictures show the dramatic change that editors do to the colour of the scenes to give the show their bold look about it. You can see how the blue in the child's top is brighter and bolder, same with the inspector below the red background has gotten more vibrant making it more dramatic.

Before and after

 That's it for post-production my next blog should be a little sneak peak of my preliminary task...