Colour within film

The importance of colour within film

Colour in costuming

For costuming we found that all black, blue and white was suitable for our genre of social realism. Due to the more variety of colours of the costume, we were able to manipulate emotions of the audience via the use of colour.

Natural colour

The more we researched into films, the further the knowledge on the importance of colour increased and we promptly came to a conclusion that colour played a large role in film production and film development. Light and colour often accompany one another, seeing as colours are the components of light. Colours portray emotions usually either subtly or very explicitly. Anything that is a source of light or reflects it has an effect on what it's seen on and on the colours of the scene. We thought about our scenes we were going to film in and the lighting that they were going to be in. After some serious consideration we decided that we would use colours like blue, navy, some black and pink. The way we could implement these colours is via costuming and the setting we was in (The seaside, the gym). Colour is vital as it can guide thinking or generate certain reactions.

Colour in editing

Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930) Widely known icon of social realism 

The most effective way to establish a mood was actually post-production editing by editing the contrast, hue and saturation of the scene to generate a 'film type look'. This film look allowed the film opening to maintain a continuous professionalism. Several people were asked about the opening with or without the change in contrast and saturation and they said that they preferred it with the low contrast and saturation. Changing the saturation can make the scene more graphic or dull.