Can you, also, tell when a movie is shot on RED?

[Josh Negrin]

It's bizarre man.

Sometimes I'll watch a movie or a trailer and know right away that it was shot on RED because of the way it looks. Does anyone else notice this?

"Knowing" is a perfect example of this happening and also "Social Network", but today I watched the trailer for "Rabbit Hole" and knew right away as well (confirmed it via imdb.com technical specs)

This doesn't always happen, though, and I'll be pleasantly surprised later to read that a movie, I enjoyed, was shot on RED.

So, I'm curious as to what someone would attribute this to. Is the color corrector not pushing it enough?

I've color corrected a few things, shot on RED, including my own film.

[Zakaree Sandberg]

yes.. red has a look. its pretty easy to spot most of the time

[michael zaletel]

I couldn't disagree more. If shot on RED-MX with Zeiss Master Primes by top-notch team then the RAW R3Ds graded/treated by the best to look like something else, you would simply never know.

RED-MX footage can be made to look like anything else which is never true the other way around.

-michael zaletel

[Frank Glencairn]

I agree. I can see the RED signature most of the time.
Nothing to do with the grading or the glass - it´s something else. Probably the motion.

Frank

[Zac C]

I agree, no matter what you do with R3D's, I can tell you what is and isn't shot on red, within a degree.

I watched a few commercials, then my friend humorously put on "Fred: The Movie" and I could easily tell all were shot on red

[Tim Hole]

When I saw Social Network for the first time it was quite amazing to see how clean the image is. Its so clean to a point that it will probably be rejected by some. But within that cleanness is a colour depth that is so rich, and a range that is profound. I have obviously seen quite a bit of stuff shot on RED and it does have a distinct look, but how the camera is employed is obviously VERY important.

Its funny that some people I know reject RED because it is not film because from what they have seen, to them looks too clean and digital. Apparently it is too real. What I see is a magical blend of what film has been doing for over a century, only amplified. It takes all the elements of film and adds its own signature blend. The result is a film like essence with the clarity of the world I see, with enough bonding magic for it excite my mind cinematically.

Also, this may be just me, but does anyone else think that the idea of shooting raw, play towards a mentality to push the look a bit further. Or is this just more of a common trend now.

[Julio Quintana]

Sometimes I'll watch a movie or a trailer and know right away that it was shot on RED because of the way it looks. I watched the trailer for "Rabbit Hole" and knew right away as well

I'm not sure I could tell any significant difference between these two:

Film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfdrJ0wHUGw

RED: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment...e_trailer.html

[Tim Hole]

I'm not sure I could tell any significant difference between these two:

Film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfdrJ0wHUGw

RED: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment...e_trailer.html

Its difficult when watching a youtube compressed video. Squid and Whale was shot on S16 though but watching it if someone told me it was RED I would disagree and have to check it out. But it could easily look digital from the youtube video.

[M Most]

yes.. red has a look. its pretty easy to spot most of the time

All capture devices and mediums have a signature look. There is no such thing as a device with a blank canvas, other than perhaps the human eye, and there's really no way to measure that. This is not a good or bad thing, it's just a fact. However, it is these very differences that allow artists to choose the proper tool for a particular production. This is no different than what different film stocks have presented for years, and it does not detract from the artistry that the individual artist - in this case, the cinematographer - brings to the job. Many different types of material can be shot using the same camera, and of course, they will look somewhat different if they are shot by different, talented cameramen. But there is undeniably a signature similarity in terms of general color reproduction and image texture when the same camera is used, it is simply the nature of any image capture device.

[jimhare]

Just wait until they point at the sun and look for the black spot!