Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Color in film
One thing that is often paid attention to, but almost always in the same way, is color in film. Any good movie pays close attention to all the details of the film and making sure they are exactly what the director wants. One of these details is the color.
While many directors are very good at making sure the color is correct, or props are the right color, or having a production design team that knows all of these things, an important aspect of it is often overlooked. One of the most important things about film, is that there is so much that goes into. There are an incredible amount of different art forms that come together to create one final product, and that is what makes film so amazing to me. A team of people are able to come together, and do what they do best individually, for one product together. As a result, there are many different ways to convey a story in film. If every single piece of the film, is an entirely new art form (or something that could be a vessel for storytelling) than why does it sometimes feel like these things fall flat? This is where color comes into play.
Ask any painter, color is everything. The exact, correct hue has to be chosen for most paintings for every stroke for the artist to feel satisfied, all because they are trying to tell a story. I think that this same attention to detail should be spent on the color in films. Now, many films do an amazing job of using color not only as a visual stimulant but also as a metaphor, but more often than not films neglect this very crucial aspect. The best kinds of films are the ones that use every single piece of their tool belt to the most of it's ability.
When I am able to look at a scene, and not only tell by what the actors are doing, but simply the color, the message of the scene and/ or film, it is successful. I wish that more films did this than they do. Many great films do a good job of making sure the color that they want is in the frame or on the object they want, but often times the neglect the fact that they are forgetting about an entire other form of storytelling that they could be utilizing
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Color, obviously, is a highly considered element in every form of art, or at least I feel it should. However, I don't think its something that I personally as an artist concentrate on enough, especially when working with my images in post. It something that I personally need to improve on, atleast when it comes to color correcting images in post. As you touched on, in photography same as in film, each color can evoke a certain feeling or can allude to a certain idea. The more control I have in precisley adjusting the colors of my images to the way I want them might cause them to represent my ideas more accurately.
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