Ever since colors have been introduced into film and video, the usage and importance of color theory as greatly increased. Obviously in black and white films, using the right colors wasn't very important, but ever since then, its importance has grown exponentially.
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Filmmakers use colors to incite specific emotions and feelings into the viewers. For example, by using a blue, green, or dark purple coloring over a sad scene, the emotional impact grows and affects the audience in a much more meaningful way.
On the other hand, a sad scene in a warm and bright environment might be less affective towards the audiences empathy. At the same time this color scheme may be used to show a chaotic or action scene where a lot of things are being thrown at the viewers. This technique can also be used to portray an overall message or purpose of a piece through the tone being shown more prominently. This connects to my piece since I plan to take a warmer and more aesthetic approach to the piece rather than a bright, colorful, and playful approach.
Using the example of the picture below, you can see that the one on the left has a somber and more sad tone. This is shown through the dark silhouette and the dark blue and green color scheme. On the other side, the feeling is more of hope and happiness. These feelings are shown through the yellow and orange color scheme and the brightness of the picture. As I learned in a mise-en-scene lesson last year, yellow color schemes and the overall usage of that color (in this specific hue of yellow) is typically used to show happiness and excitement.
Unlike a lot of them, there is a large area of films that appear better with only one specific color scheme meaning that the whole piece is put together to present this one singular emotion or feeling. Obviously, there are many films that simply match their coloring to the feeling of each specific scene, but that isn't quite the approach I'm trying to take. This is especially due to my topic and the feeling that animals typically gives to an audience in comparison to a fictional story that may have a turn of events or a distinct tone in different areas of their film.
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How this research relates back to my own piece:
For my piece I plan on focusing on colors that express the calming and warm side of pets. If you didn't catch it, I used the adjective warm in the last sentences because I'm going to be mainly trying to use warmer colors. This would include mainly orange, red, beige, and brown; however, because of animals close relation to nature, I will probably be including some green to fit in the naturistic aspect and side of the animals. My color scheme is also going to be on the dimmer side meaning not bright colors. I hope this color scheme also allows for a mysterious feeling to be integrated into it to further make the audience want to watch more and get attached to the show.
I don't really have much more to mention, but I did say in one of my earlier posts that I have started filming some B-roll of my own pets whenever I like a position they're in. So, to wrap it up I'm going to include a picture of one of my already filmed B-roll videos to further show my color scheme in actuality.
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