Study Task 2
‘How to Use Colour in Film’- Store Binder 2016
“When telling a story, colors can...
- Elicit psychological reactions with the audience
- Draw focus to significant details
- Set the tone of the movie
- Represent character traits and more
- Show changes or arcs in the story”
Monochromatic colour schemes-
- red, dark red, pink.
- Create a feeling of harmony and soothing
Complementary-
- orange and blue are commonly used.
- Duelling colours are associated with conflict.
Analogous
- These colours neighbour each other.
- Colours such as, red/ violet or yellow/ lime green.
- Soothing and harmonious viewing experience
Triadic
- One colour should be dominant and other colours accented.
- Three colours spaced around the colour wheel.
- For example, Red, Blue, and yellow.
- 'Discordance is used to deviate from the colour schemes to refocus the attention somewhere else.'
- “Color theory norms should be understood by filmmakers, but never seen as a limitation.”
- 'A recurring colour palette or colour shifts can represent a transformation in the character, story, or theme. This is to show a change visually instead of spoken or written. -TCIF'
- “When chosen carefully, a well-placed movie color palette evokes mood and sets the tone for the film.” -acif
- 'When a color or scheme is recurrently associated with a specific character, object, place or theme, it becomes a symbol. This is seen throughout many iconic films. -acif'
This is the information I got from the online book.
What I need to ask myself:
- What CONCEPTS is the author trying to communicate?
The author of this book is trying to communicate to the reader that the colour scheme of a film or a background is important as colour can make or tell the viewer what emotion to feel. As well as emotion, if a colour script is used correctly it can be used to direct the film from scene to scene visually.
- What are the KEY QUOTES and/or KEY POINTS?
The key points this book makes throughout to the viewer, is using the correct colour scripts and keys in a particular scene is important as it is mainly used by filmmakers to set the tone for the character, action or object.
Some of the quotes I pulled from the text were:
- “Color theory norms should be understood by filmmakers, but never seen as a limitation.”
- “When chosen carefully, a well-placed movie color palette evokes mood and sets the tone for the film.”
These quotes stood out for me because after explaining the definition of different colour wheels, this quote gets straight to the point as to why putting these colour wheels into practice. These quotes explains why all these explanations are important to consider when making the scenes come to life.
- What EXAMPLES are used by the author?
To prove the information the author was giving to the reader, he used screenshots from different movies to show the different colour palettes in the film. The Colour palettes changed based on the mood of the scene taking place. The films used as an example were, The Matrix (1999), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Amelie (2001), X-Men Apocalypse, The island, Mad Max: Fury Road, Transformers, Traffic (2000), Children of Men (2006), Tokyo Drifter (1966), Superman (1978), A Woman is a Woman (1961), Pleasantville, (1998), Sin City (2005), Schindler’s List (1993), We Need to Talk to Kevin, The Sixth Sense, The Shining, Kill Bill (2003), Vertigo (1958), The Godfather (1972), Star Wars (1980), The Dark Knight (2008), Inside Out (2015), and UP (2009).
- How can this theory be related to animation or your theme?
This theory can relate to my chosen animation theme because the definition of the word aesthetics is when it is “concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty.” I want to mainly look at backgrounds within animation films as I am interested in being a background/concept artist. I want to study why colour scripts are important when designing a background and if colour wheels are a effective tool to use when setting the tone for a viewer.
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