Editing is coming along slowly but surely. Things are always busy, of course, but I’ve recently been making an effort to find some time as often as possible to work on the rough cut of the movie.

One of the tools a filmmaker has at his or her disposal is a process known as color correction. It’s where you change the color palette of a film to give it a different feel. These days its usually done digitally, but back in the day it was done by literally developing or modifying the film stock that the movie was stored on.

One of the plans I made early on with Spectre was to approach the filming of the movie with color correction in mind for post production. The idea was to film the movie as “flat” as possible in order to maximize the potential for different “looks” later on. (This approach, by the way, is a direct result of me reading Stu Maschwitz’s excellent DV Rebel’s Guide)

Here’s a still frame from the movie. This is how it looked originally when we shot it.

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Now here is the same image with some stylized color correction applied.

Want to see some different takes on this image? Some of the awesome people over at the Rebel Café have posted their versions of this image. Thanks, guys!