Introduction to Color in Film Preliminary Exercise: Secondary Colors

       Secondary colors are color combinations created by the equal mixture of two primary colors. The secondary colors are green, orange, and purple. Blue and yellow make green, yellow and red make orange, and red and blue make purple.

       Green is the color of grass, leaves, limes, broccoli, and emeralds. Green usually means nature, environment, healing, good luck, spring, soothing, self-awareness, generosity, youth, and healthy. In other matters, the color means jealousy, envy, sick, and inexperience.

       Orange is the color of oranges, pumpkin, monarch butterflies, calendula, and spessartite garnet. Orange usually means warmth, vibrant, enthusiasm, flamboyant, and energy. At other times, the color means humor, balance, expansive.

       Purple is the color of plums, lilac, lavender, jacaranda, and amethyst. Purple usually means royalty, ceremony, wisdom, enlightenment, power, nobility, and spirituality. In other instances, the color means mysterious, transformation, sensitive, cruelty, and intimacy.