Color Me Confused, Part 2

I work in visual effects. We were working on a music video when the video’s director came into the studio to see the progress and give feedback. I’m working on a shot filled with purple smoke, and he comes over to my desk and starts giving me notes:

Director: “This shot is looking too purple. Make it less purple.”

Me: “Okay, I can take down its saturation.”

Director: “No, I still want it to have a lot of color.”

Me: “What color would you like instead?”

Director: “Like blue and red, mixed together.”

It sounds stupid (and it is!), but after years of learning to speak ‘client’, I learned that they probably wanted something closer to magenta or violet, rather than whatever shade of purple it was. I added a filter to make the smoke appear in either of those two colors, and the client loved it.

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