11/12/2023 0 Comments Colors movie![]() ![]() Two colors forms a sort of rich, unified look that defines the world the character is in. Today, they achieve that kind of focus with two colors. This particular quality of black and white was very hard to achieve in the early days of color film. It draws your attention to the things in the frame, without colors distracting away from what should be in focus. Color is important.īut there is something cool about black and white. There’s a lot to be said about black and white films, but the world quickly forgot about it when color came along. Here are a couple of monochromatic frames: Ad Astra Ad Astra The second color is usually picked for contrast. This color is what the audience will notice. The trend for a lot of artistic production design is to decide on one dominant color for any set. The production design of films like Blade Runner and Ad Astra stand out for being unique and immersive. ![]() Production design is the art of creating sets and even worlds. This kind of separation can only be done consistently in production design: The Matrix Revolutions The dominant color Skin must look natural, or the audience will know instantly something is off.Įven on a film like Amelie, with a beautiful green patina all over, skin tones look very natural for that world. Just because the wall is red doesn’t mean the skin can be red. Whenever filmmakers pick colors, the color of skin is their first priority. The importance of having neutral skin tones The only other camera I know of that has this kind of consistency with skin tones is the Arri Alexa camera. You can underexpose or overexpose and the colors hold. Many filmmakers still shoot on film because they covet these skin tones. The audience can’t tell what’s wrong, but they know something is. Slight changes in skin color and we know it was shot on a video camera. But the simplest and toughest test for any camera is the skin tone test. If you shoot landscapes with cheaper cameras, it’s very hard to tell if it was shot on a cinema camera or not. Of all the colors humans are sensitive to, no color comes close to the color of skin. Here’s a cool video I made on the art of color grading: Painters in the olden days had to go to great pains to create different pigments for their paintings. Everything else is more exciting, maybe because they were rare. Look around you, the colors of nature – earth, sky, trees and plants are soothing and natural to us. Blue and green are soothing, yellow is vibrant, like life, brown is earthy, neutral. The traditional way of thinking is red is anger, creates tension. But when you want individuality and emotion to shine, you use, you know, colors – like cars, party clothes, fun cameras and face paint. Professional products like cameras, laptops, machines and business suits are made in neutral colors. Too many psychological studies have been published about this, none of which I’m going to reference here. We all know different colors influence different moods. Which aspect of filmmaking does color impact the most? For me, it’s the mood. However, the color palette does allow you to do one super creative thing, and that is tell a story through color. It’s not like a rule or anything that you have to use two colors, or any color palette. Movies have been made with normal colors, and still are. Why do movies pick two colors? Why not three, or four dominant colors? There is a color story going on as well.Ī lot of these color decisions are made on the drawing board, and set design plays a huge role.īut let’s answer one fundamental question. There is a reason why these colors are chosen. You’ve seen hundreds of films, but probably never noticed how many of them have precisely two dominant colors in most scenes. ![]() A complete visual representation of the filmmaking process from beginning to end. Exclusive Bonus: Download your FREE Blueprint: How to make a movie. ![]()
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