As long as I have worked in television production, it has been a given that blue looks good on TV as a wardrobe and set color. People just look better in blue. I never stopped to ask “why?” until recently. There seems to be no definitive answer. So far, I have found two schools of thought.
1). The blue portion of the color wheel is directly across from the flesh tones (180-degrees). So the colors are complimentary. No matter you completion, there is a blue for you!
2). Blue is in the mid-range of the”primary television” colors red, blue and green. Therefore it doesn’t have to fight against other colors for attention and the camera likes it.
Perhaps blue looks so good on TV for both of these reasons. What have you heard?
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