Saga Your Favorite Aesthetic (note: Image heavy)

These...(i think i like red ...and i just saw that my most favorite shots have people with their backs towards the camera...)

^Favorite shot in the entire saga

^2nd favorite shot

(chills...every time...)

and everything Padme (damn that smile...)

 

I tend to really like the underbelly of Star Wars, the ones filled with questionable characters, bounty hunters, and the "scum and villainy". So Jabba's palace holds a special place in my heart.

 

See this is an amazing shot right here. It really captures both image and emotion really well. This is truly amazing filmmaking!

 

Yes, the "staring off into destiny" motif is out to really good use throughout the saga. Just for the sake of rounding out the collection:








Curiously, the only equivalent present in TPM are Maul's "hunting" shots.





(I'm now realizing that the scenes in those first two Maul pictures were probably shot at the same time, with the second one being shot through a camera filter/color graded in post.)

 

I have three aesthetics I enjoy.



Love the smoke and orange lights.

Love Coruscant night shots like this.

 

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My favorite aesthetic in Star Wars has to be the melding of technology with nature. Tatooine, Geonosis, Mustafar, Yavin, Hoth, Starkiller Base, D'Qar. It's all over the saga. This is something very unique to the franchise, and a great way to bring interesting design into the films.

 

I love the Colors of Felucia, and the Beauty of the Coruscant Sky lanes, particularly the Jedi Temple.

 

I'm surprised nobody has said Endor yet. Endor is absolutely wonderful, I love the Redwood ecosystem.

 

I tend to like the utilitarian look of the Imperial facilities, such as Death Star, Star Destroyer, and Endor base.
This last one serves as a good segway into my other favorite motif, which is when they combine the futuristic with the naturally grown, such as Naboo, Endor near the bunker, Kashyyyk, Mos Eisley.

 

It is too hard to pick one, the SW is all about the visual, still I think how the color palett speaks by itself.
TPM: blured, smooth colors with some shadows in the end (phantom menace)
AOTC: multilayered, always double sided
ROTC: dark and red: burn and death.
ANH: for me it has very 'dessert' colors, maybe as for the contrast of the new hope rising
ESB: white and dark
ROTJ: at least some vivid colors in the OT. Intentionally, of course.

 

I love love love all the cool-colored settings. Especially with soft/diffused light, and especially cities or buildings.

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Can't find a good shot of it, but I especially love the ESB scene with Vader at the top of the steps in the carbon freezing chamber, awaiting Luke just after he enters. It's such a simple yet powerful composition: complimentary colours of blue and orange, Vader silhouetted, and that sequence moves very slowly, building the tension. I feel like you'd never see such a stripped down scene in a modern blockbuster.


-Tim

 

One of my favs...

 

For you, TimmerWeb: I think this is the shot you describe.



It is beautiful.

 

Lot to look at on this thread