Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Is your 35mm print of Magic Mike sepia toned?

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Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 07-28-2012, 01:25 AM:

First night here with Magic Mike, and had several comments from customers that I needed to "adjust the color and contrast" on the projector. [Roll Eyes]

? Most if not all of the outdoor scenes in the movie looked almost sepia toned, or the colors were muted and had that almost 1970's "super 8 home movies" look to them.

Anybody else experience this? Is it intended to look that way for artistic purposes, or is my print messed up? I first thought I'd lost a diode on the rectifier or my bulb was about to go, but when it changed to indoor scenes it looked just fine.

I asked my concessions girls if it looked that way at the indoor theatres (since they all went together to go see it) , and they just replied ... "We didn't pay any attention to the colors". [Big Grin]

Posted by Victor Liorentas (Member # 5272) on 07-28-2012, 03:32 AM:

My 35mm print is the same crap way. It was digitally shot with the Red camera I think...

Posted by Edward Havens (Member # 4715) on 07-28-2012, 04:10 AM:

That's Soderbergh's style of shooting... I mean, that's Peter Andrews' style of shooting. We QC'd it on our IMAX digital screen and it looked damn good.

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 07-28-2012, 09:38 AM:

Our print has this look, too.

Posted by Marco Giustini (Member # 4544) on 07-28-2012, 10:00 AM:

I saw briefly the film on a newly installed Digital projector and it looked yellowish, like 35mm prints shown in the same complex.

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 07-28-2012, 11:49 AM:

quote: Barry Floyd
"adjust the color and contrast" on the projector.

Gotta love the public's concept of what goes on behind the scenes. DAMN consumer adjustment controls.

Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 07-28-2012, 02:52 PM:

Same here. ESPECIALLY the sandbar scene... looks like everyone has jaundice. And that weird wave reflection in the camera lens...

Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 07-28-2012, 07:31 PM:

quote: Frank Angel
Gotta love the public's concept of what goes on behind the scenes. DAMN consumer adjustment controls.

A few months back I had a broadcast engineer flat-out call me a liar when I told him our DP4K didn't have colour, contrast, and keystone correction like his FLM-series Barcos.

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 07-29-2012, 12:45 AM:

Related topic:

How many of you cinema operators get this classic complaint: "There is no sound coming from the surrounds like mine does with my home system.."

First, I ask if it's during a dialog scene and the majority of the answers are, "yes, just during dialog." I then explained that the majority of all films released for the cinema, the dialog track is recorded for center channel only..and not intended for surround playback.

I simply tell them that we were first in this and know how to do sound professionally, making ours the correct way to present sound.

Don't you hate it when home cinema owners love to compare their systems to ours?

Posted by Ross Oba (Member # 3433) on 07-29-2012, 02:03 PM:

"There is no sound coming from the surrounds like mine does with my home system.."

Not only did we get a complaint about the colors looking "strange" (I didn't mind it), we got a complaint about no surrounds. I was watching our CP650 and even during some of the scenes with just music playing, it seemed to be about 50/50 that the music was also playing in the surrounds, so they could have been complaining about that.

Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 07-29-2012, 02:04 PM:

quote: Monte L Fullmer
Don't you hate it when home cinema owners love to compare their systems to ours?

No... actually I kind of like it when people like to compare systems and brag about their stuff. When we first joined our church, before bible study class in the mornings, several of the men (usually snotty-ass lawyers and doctors) would stand around the coffee pot and brag about their home theatre systems. "I've got a 42" plasma", Oh yeah... "I've got a 53"3d HDTV", and so on. One day, one of them looked at me and said, "So Barry - Do you have a big screen entertainment system?" "Why yes", I replied - "I have two". "How big are your screens?" "60 feet across and 4 stories tall... any questions?" [fu]

I win the "screen size comparison every time! [Big Grin]

Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 08-01-2012, 12:00 AM:

Also- - have you noticed that after the LFOA on each reel and
at the end, after the ratings tag on the last reel, the
"tail pop" is indicated by a one frame picture of a horse.

I saw this on another print once awhile back too.

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 08-02-2012, 11:20 AM:

quote: Buck Wilson
looks like everyone has jaundice.

Infective hepatitis due to needle sharing and lots o' sex. Or maybe alcohol-induced type instead... [thumbsup]