LAUAN601 COLOUR MAPPING

COLOUR MAPPING 

To start the process of creating my finished boards of my colour script, I started by planning the script out onto a colour map. The colour map looks like this: 

Colour Map from The Portal
By Jessica Carter

This colour script has been mapped out into the four chapters created in the script. The first chapter consists of introducing the little boy into the mystical world with an establishing shot, and the low angle shot of the monster to portray what genre is behind the coloured door. The second chapter is the introduction of Grandma's house, this introduces the idea of the reality world and how bored the little boy is, which is portrayed by the black and white imagery. The black and white imagery blocks out all of the colour, other than from the doors in the basement, leaving the atmosphere with a dull feeling throughout this world. Where as, in the mystical world the colour brings it to life and creates a atmosphere of suspension. Going into the third chapter this explores the portal animation idea; this idea was based around finding a way to drastically separate the two worlds. The portal allows the character to move from one world to the other. Lastly, the forth chapter, shows the little boy making it back through his portal into the reality world. One of the other coloured doors is left open as a hand starts to crawl out. The ending was important for this storyline because I wanted to leave the audience in suspense; my aim is to control how the audience feel about the other coloured doors, and question what mystical world lies behind.

 The colour for this door into the mystical world was chosen from the answers from my survey through Survey Monkey. The survey questioned how colour theory works within film theory to gain an emotional response from the audience. This was in response to the case study, 'If It's Purple Someone's Gonne Die' by Patti Bellantoni. Each colour causes a particular human response, such as, with the colour red, the survey proved that individuals mainly relate that colour to power or romance. Red can be used to control either emotion by using different tones to create a different atmosphere depending on the genre of the film.  The coloured door behind this chosen mystical world is: purple. I chose this colour because most responses lead back to the idea of purple creating a supernatural genre to this world. The monster will be robotic and will glow as he approaches his fight to protect his home. I would of improved this secondary research by researching deeper into questioning colour and the effects it has on a humans emotional response. I would of done this by creating a questionnaire based around my colour chart. I would of create an opportunity to for the audience to respond to the colour schemes chosen and would of given me the answers as to whether the colours represent the most effective atmosphere within my storyline.