I've done this before, making the entire shot black and white other than the blood on a dead body. Premiere, at least, has a simple filter which lets you choose a color and a similarity range, and turns everything else to black and white... I think it's called something like 'color pass', but it's a long time since I've used it.

I presume other editing programs will let you do something similar. Provided you keep the colors different to everything else in the scene (or use a rough matte to keep the rest of the scene unchanged) it should work fine.

Yeah, similar effects used in the film 'Sin City'

I'd suggest using really vibrant colours with the objects you want in colour. Try not to have too much of the same colour in shot aswell.

Hope it turns out well ?;)?

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I've actually tried getting a copy of adobe premiere but its much too expensive for me-- Even though I have photoshop...

I really appreciate the help, I wasn't aware premiere had something like that. I guess I'll start saving up all my juice money and cutting back on all those unnescesary luxury items, like food or toilet paper.

Thanks for the help!

You might also want to do a search on these forums for "pleasantville". A thread a while back relating to that movie discussed doing the colour elements in a black and white movie.

Ben C.

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