From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day

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Designing a hospital look

Designing a hospital look

From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day

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Designing a hospital look

This is how hospitals look, isn't it? Dark, dramatic, lots of contrasting colored lighting. Well, actually no, they don't look anything like this, this is a treated shot. A hospital actually looks like this. Lots of the colors quite bright, often they've got friendly, warm colors on the walls. But why do we constantly see hospitals portrayed with these green colors, especially in the walls or on the bed linen. Well, it might be because we're used to seeing these sort of colors in hospital on the gowns. Where you've got lots of bluey green or blue gowns worn by either the patients or the surgeons. And this works remarkably well for drama because, these color gowns reflect nicely the skin tone, they contrast against the skin tone. They're complimentary colors, they come from the opposite side of the color wheel. So, we tend to get these colors in hospital dramas or settings within a hospital quite often. I'll just jump back to the first clip. So, if you wanted to recreate this look…

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