I'm pretty sure color correction has been around since color films existed. Sergio Leone could have made his movies look yellow if he wanted, but didn't, so I think this is an aesthetic decision.
Aged celluloid films tend to look very pale from the ones I've seen, so maybe that's part of it too. Probably still mostly an aesthetic decision.
Yeah it's always been there but it was prohibitively expensive on top of regular exposure/processing to get the movie to look right. Now you can just change some sliders or curves on a computer. So everyone always does a CC pass just because it's there.
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I'm pretty sure color correction has been around since color films existed. Sergio Leone could have made his movies look yellow if he wanted, but didn't, so I think this is an aesthetic decision.
Aged celluloid films tend to look very pale from the ones I've seen, so maybe that's part of it too. Probably still mostly an aesthetic decision.
Yeah it's always been there but it was prohibitively expensive on top of regular exposure/processing to get the movie to look right. Now you can just change some sliders or curves on a computer. So everyone always does a CC pass just because it's there.