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The use of filters or digital post-processing to change the tint of the film. Common techniques include [[Color Wash]].
Sometimes, this is used to create a particular
This is [[Older Than Television]]. Silent films used color tints to distinguish day and night, interiors and exteriors, and different moods.
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[[Unnaturally Blue Lighting]] is often a signature of science fiction works. When overused it can results in both glare and loss of detail in a scene.
See also [[Hollywood Darkness]]. [[Real Is Brown]]
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== Media in General ==
* More generally, it's a common trope in both film and television to shoot New York City through a blue filter to make it look depressing, gritty, and urban, and to shoot California through a yellow or red filter to make it look sunny and cheerful.
** Sometimes the yellow or filter is to make it look sunny all
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* The red room attack scene in ''[[Soukou no Strain]]''.
* Some of the more serious scenes in ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* An example of using this technique well can be found in Soderburg's ''Traffic'', where scenes in the US were shot with a blue filter and scenes in Mexico were shot through sienna.
* The movie ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]'' was shot almost entirely with a creepy bluish filter to enhance the horror atmosphere of the setting. Only at the end when the threat is past does the filter shift to a warm color (ironically, in New York City...)
* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', scenes inside the Matrix are shot with a green filter, while scenes in the "real world" are shot with a blue filter.
* [
* Director Mario Bava was known for using colored
* The Mamoru Oshii film ''[[Avalon (film)]]'' has everything tinted brown, until one sequence which brings up the possibility that it's real and the rest of the film isn't. {{spoiler|This possibility ends up not being true}}.
* The entirety of the [[
* The movie version of ''[[South Pacific]]'' is an infamous example of color tinting gone wrong, a mistake which haunted director Joshua Logan for the rest of his life.
* ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'' overused color filters, as well as [[Dutch Angle|weird camera angles]].
* ''[[City of Angels (
* Every shot in ''[[Sin City]]'' invokes this trope due to [[City Noir]] roots and the shot-for-shot nature of recreating a comic book in live action.
* The film Thirteen, noted on the DVD commentary, was shot with warmer colouring when the girls are partying and colder, more stark lighting as things fall apart.
* Christiane F is mostly green-tinged. This might be deliberate on the part of the film-makers (since it's about drug addiction), but it looks largely shot under fluorescent lights (in subway stations, etc.), due to budgetary restraints. This will give a green tint to film if not corrected with filters.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' seems to have incorporated another shows use of this trope in its [[Poorly
* During the first season of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'',
* Used in the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Out of Gas" for flashbacks more than a day or two previous.
* In ''[[Dexter]]'', the kill scenes are usually shot with green gels on the lights to create a sickly or monstrous appearance for the character. In addition, bold red lighting is sometimes used in relation to kills.
* Done frequently in [[Power Rangers]] to suggest an [[Alien Sky]]. The moon usually uses blue tinting, a volcanic planet uses red tinting, and in [[Power Rangers RPM]], the earth post-nuclear [[Robot War]] uses a yellow tint.
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'': One of the notable differences between the Season 4 pitch and the rest of the show was the drastic change in mood lighting. Neptune, Neptune High and Mars Investigations all had very orangey, red warm
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* What's your favourite ''[[Metal Gear]]'' level design - grey buildings with a blue tint (''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''), grey ship with a green tint (''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''), orange buildings with a green tint, averaging out to grey (''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''), green trees and buildings with a yellow tint (''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3''), or [[Real Is Brown|brown brown with brown]] and a brown tint (''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'')?
* Although the areas are often [[Patchwork Map|right next to each other]], ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' colors the sky (and the artificial fog of the area if you don't have maximum distance set on your visual settings) of many of its areas to fit the type of area. For example, the sky is colored orange to fit a burnt or volcanic area, the Eastern and Western Plaguelands have a reddish-brown tint and yellowish-brown tint respectively to give off an infected, ravaged feel; and Shadowmoon Valley has a yellow-green sky to match the green lava of the area. And with ''Wrath of the Lich King'' comes Icecrown, which has gloomy dark blue lighting to match the pure ice wasteland. Thus moving past a zone border can turn previously-clear lakes to sickly green, for example.
* In ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' uses this a lot; for example, the colors on Cammie Island are much darker, in the morning are yellowish, and in the West are all red and black.
* Used in [[Danny Phantom]]: During any ghost attack the scenery changes colors, usually to a dark blue, purple, or
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKoB0MHVBvM Diet Coke and Mentos experiments] have a strong blue tint to the video, although this does not extend to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vk4_2xboOE sequel].
* In [[The Powerpuff Girls]] episode "Tough Love", the city of Townsville turns a hellish red when everyone (sans the girls) is under HIM's control.
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