Marc Munden, director of the Utopia series, used a technicolour process to give the series its iconic look. It is usually expected that cinematography is constructed with reds, greens and blues, however Utopia is constructed of the complete opposite, yellows, magenta and cyan.
Munden and the series colourist Aidan Farrell colour-corrected each shot in post-production by using Nucoda Film Master, a grading software, which replaced the use of a brush or pen. Munden said, " It's the equivalent of when they used to hand-paint photos in the Edwardian times", suggesting the look of the series was a lot more authentic and original than using the typical software.
Many of the original scenes were shot in autumnal Britain, where the skies were usually grey and bleak. This is where the work in post-production changes a dull scene into a comic style shot. Munden and Farrell successfully managed to create the desired look by making grass greener and eyes brighter and the shots over all more vivid.
Because of the time spent in post-production, the series successfully pulled off the comic-book style scenes they anticipated which mirrored the conspiracies of the comic book the series is based on.
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