Introduction to Color in Film Preliminary Exercise

       The objective of the post/lesson is color in film. Colors mean something on an emotional level and can help add new visual layers to a film. Color in film elicit certain emotions and have a psychological effect of people. Three codes used in a film that illustrates color are hue, saturation, and brightness. Hue is the color itself. Saturation is the intensity of the color. Brightness is how light or dark the color is. The three characters of film are dominant color, contrasting foils, and color symbolism. The dominant color of a shot effects the mood or tone of the setting. Contrasting foils are a use of color to specifically connect connotations to specific scenes, characters or objects. Color symbolism is color being used to draw the audience's eye to something in the frame by using contrasting or complementary colors. The screenwriter, cinematographer, production designer, and the director are responsible for color in a film.

      The goal of this preliminary exercise is that I will be able to recognize and define signs (visually and audibly) when analyzing media products for denotative and connotative meanings. I will be creating a horror movie. I would probably use black and red colors in the movie. Two people worked on my team, Sage W. and Micah G.

      I learned how important color in film is. That color can set the mood for a film or scene in a film, if the scene was happy, bright, and had a great mood, or if it was sad, dark, and had a horrible mood. The questions helped with what I needed to find out.