Color

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     This lesson was created to demonstrate how color may impact a scene or film's mood and emotion. The use of color in movies helps to establish a connection between the audience and the content. Black can symbolize fear or death, yellow can symbolize happiness or naivete, and red can symbolize either danger or strength. Black, for example, might express fear, although directors frequently stray from a genre's typical hues to emphasize or symbolize something. A colorist is a person who collaborates with the director to manage the picture's color scheme in the world of film production. The tone and shade of colors can also be edited by the colorist in post-production.  Although colorist specialize in color, directors still have large input about what colors go in the scene. 

    The goal of this of this preliminary exercise is to analyze why the director used certain colors for certain scenes. We also analyzed what these colors are supposed to make the viewer feel and how color can work in conjunction with costume and set design. The exercise also explains the connotations of these colors and what the color represents in the movie. We used PowerPoint to create a slideshow of different movies with specific color scenes. I worked with my partner joseph to create this slideshow.

    Making this assignment taught me that color can evoke feelings in a viewer that a sight in a different color wouldn't elicit. A viewer may feel more depressed if a sorrowful scene is in dark blue rather than brilliant yellow. I also discovered that a movie's use of the same color for specific scenes can subtly hint at what is about to happen. In Blade Runner 2049, for instance, anytime a significant piece of the riddle is revealed, the scene glows yellow. This makes it clear to the audience that a significant event is taking place in the narrative.

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