# Red and cyan blockbuster

Light and look / Colour look / Named looks. Checked 2026-10-13.

The contemporary big-studio look: clean, saturated, slightly cool.

- Use when: Premium ads, action, tech launches.
- Phrase: balanced natural colour, cyan-green in the shadows, a touch of red in the midtones, blues swung toward cyan, the brightest highlights less saturated
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/look/look-blockbuster
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/look/look-blockbuster.json

## Watch out

- Production design and location do the heavy lifting; the grade only adds two small moves. (practitioner; The Director Chair colour grading guide)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
Balanced natural colour, cyan-green in the shadows, a touch of red in the midtones, blues swung toward cyan, the brightest highlights less saturated. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
Balanced natural colour, cyan-green in the shadows, a touch of red in the midtones, blues swung toward cyan, the brightest highlights less saturated. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: balanced natural colour, cyan-green in the shadows, a touch of red in the midtones, blues swung toward cyan, the brightest highlights less saturated
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
Balanced natural colour, cyan-green in the shadows, a touch of red in the midtones, blues swung toward cyan, the brightest highlights less saturated. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Global look: balanced natural colour, cyan-green in the shadows, a touch of red in the midtones, blues swung toward cyan, the brightest highlights less saturated
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Global look: balanced natural colour, cyan-green in the shadows, a touch of red in the midtones, blues swung toward cyan, the brightest highlights less saturated
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Balanced natural colour, cyan-green in the shadows, a touch of red in the midtones, blues swung toward cyan, the brightest highlights less saturated.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Balanced natural colour, cyan-green in the shadows, a touch of red in the midtones, blues swung toward cyan, the brightest highlights less saturated.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film and ad stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Teal and orange: https://directorchair.ai/look/look-teal-orange
- Brand film: https://directorchair.ai/look/look-brand-film

## Source

Own synthesis in the Director Chair colour grading guide

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.