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Preliminary Exercise 5: Introduction to Color in Film - Primary Colors

    During Media Studies class we have been learning the importance of color in film. Color in film is used to extract certain emotions from the audiences. Color in film is also used to guide the audience towards the intent of the author, send a message, and create dramatic irony. The three codes that illustrates color in film is hue, saturation, and brightness. The three characters of film is tone, color, and lightning. The cinematographer is responsible for color in film. For this particular part of the assignment, we are focusing on the primary colors. The primary colors consist of red, blue, and yellow. 





   The goal of this preliminary exercise was to create a color wheel Semiotic Analysis Organizer based on Roland Barthes’ Theory. This preliminary exercise was to help me to analyze the symbolic meaning of colors in film. This assignment required me to make a PowerPoint with one other teammate. We decided to split up the PowerPoint by giving each other five slides each. I did the primary colors, but also did one secondary color. While she did the rest of the Secondary color and the warm/cool colors slides. This preliminary exercise was a great help to understanding the reasoning behind putting a specific color in a particular scene.

   This assignment was showed how important primary colors are in film. For example, when we think of red there are two ways our head turn to. Danger or romance. When we are talking about a horror movie, we should immediately classify it under the danger category. This helps to develop the plot and set the mood. This assignment was a great way to get further in dept of the primary colors meaning and improve our teamwork. Throughout this process me and my partner relied on each other, in a good way. We asked many questions to each other, to further understand the importance of color. Even though we did split it up 50-5o. We both helped each other even if it was not our slide to do. This helped to get the project done quicker and focus on the design.

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