8/31/2023 0 Comments Color moods color grading![]() ![]() In telling the story of a failing relationship between the two central characters, the film cuts back to warm red scenes shot on a ARRIFLEX 416 16mm film video camera. So what are the other genre to colour archetypes that filmmakers use to make their audiences feel?Ī great example of a filmmaker who has used the power of colour to affect an audience is Derek Cianfrance in the film ‘Blue Valentine’ (2010). Conversely the colour blue creates a calming effect. The red carpet is that colour, as it is used to keep the traffic flowing. Traditionally red is the colour that has the power to increase our heart rate, increase appetite and vocal activity. We associate colour with different things in our lives. This colour / emotion combination allows audience to experience cinema in an emotional state of relaxed entertainment. Orange the colour that promotes emotions of Vigilance, anticipation and interest is combined with blue that affects feelings of amazement, surprise and distraction. This colour treatment makes actors pop out of the background by highlighting the orange tones from the actors skin while the shadows and background information is cast with blue.īy referring to Plutchik’s wheel of colour and emotion we see the varying emotional impacts that these two colours have when mixed together. The reigning colour trend that is taking over hollywood is the colour tones of blue and orange. Professional colour graders understand this link between colour and emotion and therefore adjust the colour pallete of their film the provoke an emotional impact that further reiterates the film script, sound and intent of the director. Evident in the following graphic is the cone shape that represents how emotions (represented by colour) can blend and become interconnected. The following is Plutchik’s wheel of emotions that are represented by colours. If we follow the pattern used in colour theory and research we can obtain judgements about combinations – the emotions that result when two or more fundamental emotions are combined in the same way that red and blue make purple. ![]() Psychoevolutionary theory believes that there are 8 basic emotion dimensions arranged in four pairs. Some emotions are mixtures of each other, just like how some colours are the result of mixing 2 seperate colours. “Primary emotions can be conceptualised in a fashion similar to a colour wheel.” Where similar emotions are placed closely together, and complementary emotions are found at 180 degrees to each other. Plutchik relates emotions to colour in the way that we can conceptualise these ideas. To fully understand colour and it’s connection to emotion lets refer to the research of american psychologist Robert Plutchik. Following on from my last article, on aesthetics and affect I will also compare filmmakers who use colour to make us feel vs filmmakers who opt to shoot in Black and white and the difference between these aesthetic choices. In this article I want to look at the industry standards of colour patterns that are used to make audiences feel certain things. Colour grading is the contributing factor that provides a film with it’s look and feel. Traditionally each genre of film is stylised by colour palettes that evoke particular emotions. (Plutchik, 2001.)Ĭolour grading has become the standard practice for filmmakers with the increase of digital technology. The experience of emotion can be confusing as different emotions can be experienced at the same time. ![]() This affect is the internal emotion that is a personal shift within our inner state. This provides a film with a particular style that results in an aesthetic that provokes affect on the audience. Our response to colour varies depending on colour and context.Ĭolour and grading is the process during filmmaking where by the understanding of colour is used to manipulate the film. As we go about our lives with associate colour with different things often on a subconscious level. ![]()
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