Drinking buddies is a rare color specimen. Properties normally associated with high budget block busters are applied to this low budget indie flick. As seen here, the orange/teal split is used, but on a low contrast image with saturation often leaning to the high side.
Perhaps this look mimics the production, using fairly big main stream names for a less than million dollar film and indie-standard story.
Drinking Buddies (2013) – Colorist Alex Bickel
Red Scarlet 2.35 : 1
The orange teal split uses basic complimentary color contrast to make skin tones stand out. In Footloose 2011 the look is used rather strongly, but her face is vignetted/masked and brought back to a more pinkish tone, avoiding the spray tan look and giving her a more vibrant and tender complexion. The look is extra effective on her because it accentuates her blue eyes.
Footloose (2011) – Digital Intermediate Colorist Walter Volpatto
2K D.I. from 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 200T 5213, Vision3 500T 5219)