Watch How Filmmakers Use Color to Elicit Specific Emotions

Filmmakers are expert emotional manipulators. Nearly every decision made during the production of a film, from wardrobe to lighting to set design, is done to convey, and manipulate, emotions. The same is true during post production, when editors, sound designers and color graders shape the film into it’s final, and hopefully most moving, iteration.

When it comes to color grading, it’s probably the least understood and most subtlety effective means of making an audience feel a certain way.