What is color in film?
Color can set the overall tone of the film. For example, the use of purple to create a sense of fantasy. Color can help the film identify character traits, like having a greedy character wear green. Color can also be used to show the evolution of a character or story.
Why is color in film significant to a film's audience?
Color in film is significant to a film's audience because color palette in a film can help tell a story. Color helps the viewer feel certain emotions for example blue undertones are usually used in sad scenes.
List 3 codes used in a film that illustrates color.
-Pink: romantic
-Yellow: happy
-Red: anger
Who is responsible for color in a film?
Colorists are responsible for designing the color scheme of a film.
The objective of the assignment is to create a color wheel Semiotic Analysis Organizer based on Roland Barthes' Theory of Denotative and Connotative Signs. We were to select movies for our Preliminary Exercise for analysis and they were to be from the following genres:
-Drama
-Scifi/fantasy
-Horror
-Comedy
-Action/Adventure
The goal of this preliminary exercise was to create slides analyzing the symbolic meaning of colors in film. We had to research and choose nine frames selected from various movie themes, genres, and mise en scene focused codes to analyze. The slide below is the final part of the assignment, the vocabulary.
This assignment was split up between me and another teammate, Alessandro P. I completed completed secondary colors and white while Alessandro completed primary colors and black. We both worked on the extra cool color slide. The vocabulary words were done by the both us.
What did I learn?
The slide of this assignment taught me vocabulary regarding the lesson which can be used again as we move on in class.
This assignment taught me how color can be played with in film to enhance and add more depth to a story. Color in film furthers emotion within a scene. This assignment also further taught how to be able to recognize and define signs both visually and audibly when analyzing media products for the following: denotative and connotative meanings. Creating these slides required getting a full analysis from one singular frame, which proved to be less difficult after realizing how much information can be taken out of just one still frame.
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