Utopia is prominent for achieving its comic-book style and the requirement of sharp colours, it also has a different use of colour which is unlike any other show on TV. It is very rare that these effects are natural, so it takes a lot of editing in post production to get the scene to look the way it does when it is finalised.
The whole series of Utopia is based around a global conspiracy in a comic book, so it is very clever how the producers achieve an actual comic-book style throughout each episode.
Director of Utopia, Marc Munden, uses a Technicolour palette from 1950's Hollywood to achieve the unique style. Normally a piece of cinematography is constructed by blues, reds and greens whereas Utopia uses yellows, cyan and magentas to push a distinct element to the series.
Marc Munden and his colourist Aidan Farrell precisely colour-correct each shot in the process of post-production using a grading software called Nucoda Film Master instead of a brush or pen. This was so they could choose certain colours and then paint them into a scene afterwards. They used post-production to enhance the colours in a shot to make it look more vibrant.
It's been said that the colour palette for series two (and onwards) of Utopia is even bolder - with production now aided by sets that are pre-prepared and ready for grading in post-production. The producers and the members that work in post-production - successfully combine the vivid colours to produce a very well executed comic-book effect.
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