Preliminary Exercise 5: Introduction to Color in Film

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

As I have mentioned in the previous blog, color in film is very important. Color is separated into multiple categories such as, primary colors, secondary colors, warm colors, cool colors, and black/white. Today I would be focusing on secondary colors. Secondary colors are green, orange, and purple. Color in film is used to evoke certain emotions from the audience. Could sometimes be used to juxtapose against one another to send a message, creating dramatic irony. Colors help to elicit psychological reactions, draw the attention to the importance of the details in a frame, set the mood and tone, and represent character traits.

For this part we got scenes from various movies that had the lighting as secondary colors. We analyzed the colors and explained as to why the cinematographer would add this specific color. We also made to sure to explain what the color was supposed to evoke from the audience. Such as if the scene was supposed to convey a pity, sympathy, frightening, or happy mood. In film color is always going to have a hidden meaning behind it. Whether people know it or not, color subconsciously evokes a certain emotion from them.

Overall this assignment was very helpful in understanding the importance of color. I liked how we split the project up into 50-50. We were able to finish this PowerPoint pretty quick, since we used our free time to even work on it together. Me and my partner were able to communicate with each other after school and helped each other on our parts. Since we finished quick we decided to take our time in designing the slides. This has been one of my favorite PowerPoints to do.

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