That's the way I shoot. Christopher Tandon, the production designer, and Lucas chose all the colors. Lucas is an artist, a fine-arts painter, and he thought that this video look gave him an interesting palette. Not only did we test the look, we tested different labs. Everybody is very nervous about this whole blowup business.
Nobody believes digital can look that good, quite honestly.
For me, a lot of it is making people feel confident that DV can work out this way. That was our prep. Mainly it was about finding the right locations and being able to paint them or do whatever we needed to do with them. The palette comes from Lucas' paintings. Lucas wanted the video look without it being harsh and having too much contrast.