If there was a movie filter when filming in your state, what color(s) would it be?

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1. I’m in Texas so probably a similar yellow or orange filter

2. For montana it would probably be yellow or grey.

3. Gray.

4. Blue-gray for Washington (at least for western WA).

5. Black and white.

6. Something to make it look more grey

7. It depends on what part of the state, Eastern Oklahoma would have a blueish green kind of like Ozark

   Western Oklahoma would have an orangish red filter like the red dirt blowing in the wind

8. Grey, unless it’s summer, then yellow. No filter for about 3 weeks in late June/early July.

9. bright white. like the brightness of sunlight reflecting off of an all white snow covered field. but then a dark amber for all the scenes that take place in bars (which would be most of the scenes)

10. Very oversaturated

11. Brown, like the walking dead

12. Kelly Green

13. Red because this state is hot af

14. Depends on season and genre. Romance taking place in fall foliage: russet or gold. [Wes Anderson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8wkVA4_8s): pale yellow and desaturated. Action movie about a winter storm at sea: cool grays and blues.

15. The one used in “An Officer and a Gentleman”. IDK shading jargon.

16. I see this posted all the time, they use yellow/orange/sepia color grading for anything that takes place in a desert or hot/dry climate. Not just Mexico. It’s a thing that started back in the day for the Westerns that were shot on film. Back then color grading was a very expensive process, that used dangerous chemicals, and could be messed up easily. So they used it sparingly, in only a few scenes, to really sell the overall tone of the film.

    Once digital color grading came into the spotlight, they started using it on everything. I think the first major movie to use digital color grading for the whole thing was “O’Brother Where Art Thou”.

    Hot/dry/desperate = Yellow & Orange

    Action-packed = Teal & Orange

    Old-timey = Sepia, desaturated

    Sad/depressed = Green, Blue, Grey

    Sci-fi/ dystopic future = Matrix green

17. I don’t know if there’s a filter for it but everything would be filmed around dawn and dusk or maybe during a full moon at night and be a little hazy and eerie.

18. NYC would be black and white

19. Gray, but only half the year.

20. South Carolina would definitely be orange, and I will not hear anything about garnet\black as possible colors…that would just be ridiculous.

21. North Jersey would definitely be a rustic blue short of shade.

22. Well the Utah Valley has a built in smog filter half the year. You’d just have to adjust the brightness to blow out

23. New York City

    Black and white films

    or maybe a blue filter

24. Green for Summer and Spring, Orange Fall, Brown Winter.

25. NY here.

    We get a very harsh white light in the morning (starting early, like 5-7a) that ends by noon and gets very low and golden until sunset. Dusk starts early, like 4-5p in winter months, and it’s very spooky and blue starting then.

26. an HDR filter: https://i.imgur.com/VCT3Vk8.jpg

    https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_w1024/v1573835951/mlb/joh4m0rprogruz1lpfzq

27. Probably a bluish gray. Picture something like Fargo meets Grumpy Old Men. Lots of snow everywhere.

28. A cool blue

29. I suppose technically we’d be unfiltered.

30. Grayscale, maybe slightly green in most of the state.

    Probably a muted yellow in Philly and Southeastern PA.

31. Probably a red/orange for southern utah but like a Grey blue for northern utah

32. Dull grey.

33. No clue

34. We have all the colors of the wind

35. Grey in the winter, green in the summer