by Dr. I. Ilker Er, PhD, CSI The Revenant (2015) There was a time when color grading was a quiet craft — a conversation between light and story. A film would unfold, and the color would shape emotion without ever drawing attention to itself. The audience wouldn’t say “that’s great color,” they’d simply feel something — the warmth of a late-afternoon memory, the chill of a lonely morning. But in today’s social media world, color has become louder. It’s shinier, brighter, more

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