There are several situations in which color appears in movies and how they play
1. Tone
Tone: The overall color organization and configuration of the color movie screen. It is often dominated by one color, so that the picture shows a certain color tendency.
There are several situations in which tone appears in the film:
(1) The whole film: According to the needs of the theme, a tone runs through the entire film.
"Birdman", written romantically, uses a cool tone of blue throughout the film.
"Good Man Good Woman", writing despair, the whole film is cool.
"Yellow Land", writing about the love for the land, orange warm tones run through the whole film.
"Golden Pond": Write about twilight love, and the warm tones of yellow run through the whole film.
(2) A paragraph: According to the needs of the theme, a tone runs through a paragraph.
A Man and a Woman:
(3) A scene: According to the needs of the theme, a tone runs through a scene.
Doctor Zhivag: Pasha and Lara by the fire in the hut, warm shades of orange. The whole film is a cool color.
(4) A lens: According to the needs of the theme, a tone runs through a lens.
Tones appear in film, usually through lighting (color light), special selection of film, and special printing of film.
In the production of TV series, in addition to the color lighting method of the TV series, the tone processing of the TV series can also be achieved by adjusting the white balance of the camera to achieve a specific tonal effect. The usual approach is:
A. Use blue cardboard to adjust white in front of the camera, so that the tone effect of the actual shot can present a warm color effect;
B. Use orange cardboard to adjust white in front of the camera, so that the tone effect of the actual shot can present a cool color effect;
(In actual production, whitening balance is often used to shoot night scenes during the day:)
Here's how:
(1) Use orange-red cardboard to whiten the front of the camera;
(2) When shooting, the aperture of the camera is reduced by two notches compared to the aperture usually used normally. ）
The role of tone in the film:
(1) Render the environment, create an atmosphere, and express the mood of the characters.
Doctor Zhivag: Pasha and Lara together.
A Man and a Woman: The hero and heroine in a tavern.
(2) Express the author's thoughts and feelings and the theme of the work.
The cool blue tones of Birdman represent the distance between the ideal and reality.
The cool blue tones in "Doctor Zhivag" and "Repentance" reflect the great suppression of human nature by Red Russia.
The warm orange color in "Yellow Land" reflects the creator's deep affection for our land.
(3) Express the author's poetry and romantic and lyrical colors.
Birdman: "Birdman" "flies" in the blue light of the seashore.
(4) Form a special style and charm of the film.
Golden Pond:
Cross Creek:
I think that in a film, the tone is the most conducive to the expression of the author's emotions, emotions, and the poetry in the author's heart, and is conducive to making the film form a unique, timeless charm and style.
2. Local hue
Local Hue: The color of a specific object in the picture. Like a red flower, a woman's white dress, and so on.
Role of local hue in film:
(1) Theme function.
If the role of tone is mainly to express the author's emotions, the author's poetry, and to make the film form a unique charm and style, then the role of local hue, I think, is mainly reflected in the theme.
"Yellow Land": red hijab, red quilt, red coat, red couplet, red slogan...
"Red Desert": red walls, red machines, mahogany boards, red flames, women's green clothes...
"Love Story": The heroine Jenny begins with her hat rose red, and when she arrives at the male protagonist Oliver's house, there are large pieces of pure red everywhere. Later, Jenny developed leukemia, and the red color gradually weakened, and finally, only a cluster of purple-red flowers remained in the ward.
The blue costume of the protagonist of "Birdman" expresses his romance. At the same time, the blue color of Birdman's clothing has also changed. First it was a blue plaid top, and later the clothes were all blue.
The Black Cannon Incident:
Most of the film's reviews comment on the black-and-white contrast in the film:
Everything in the conference room is white: white walls, white clothes, white clock faces, white curtains, white tablecloths, white glass cups, boiling water, white chair covers, and so on. Only the scales and hands of human hair and wall clocks are black.
In fact, "The Black Cannon Incident" is a political movie. The real intention of the producers in the film is the red that runs through the film: red itself is a rather complex color in China. First of all, in China it is the color of revolution, the color of the Chinese Communist Party (red flag, red regime, red jiangshan), and the color of red itself points to blood, crisis, danger, and violence, so there are red lights at intersections, and red signs on highways indicate "stop".
"Black Cannon Incident" cleverly exploits this complexity of red. The protagonist Zhao Shuxin's side is always accompanied by red, and it appears more naturally and is not easy to be detected.
Post and Telecommunications Bureau: the red vest of a tall man, the red umbrella of a woman, the red light of a police car, a red car, a red skirt, a red road sign, a red machine, a red light of "Alibaba"... Red tablecloth in the party committee office. Close-up of the red sun at the end.
"Lola Run":
In order to emphasize Lola, praise Lola, and highlight his beloved protagonist Lola from the many characters in the film, the use of red in the film has reached the extreme.
(2) The role of the playwriter.
Local hue is the subject and core of the film's narrative.
The Blue Woman:
In the movie "Blue Woman", the local hue is the main body and core of the film's narrative. Or rather, the movie "Blue Woman" is a local hue assignment.
3. Black and white films and color films appear alternately
Let the students talk about the example of alternating black and white films and color films.
The role of black-and-white films and color films in the film:
(1) Show the mood of the characters:
A Man and a Woman:
"Lovers Song":
"Izu Dancer":
(2) Express the theme of the work:
"Here the Dawn Is Quiet" has three kinds: black and white, color, and orange. Use "black and white" to criticize war; "color" to praise peace; and orange red to express an unrealistic, romantic illusion and imagination.
(3) Treatment of the structure of the play:
The Purple Rose of Cairo:
Black and White: Movies... (On-screen, idealized, artistic)
Color: Reality... (Life, non-art)
"Prom Violin":
Black and white: the process by which the director made the film;
Color: The film made.
Spider Woman's Kiss:
A: Black and White: Valoddin's Illusion (Abstract, Symbolic – Highest Level)
B: Orange-hued: Molina's film (romantic, artistic, artificial)
C: Color: Reality.
Sunny Days:
Sunny Days is a color film. The "epilogue" at the end of the film appears in the form of a black-and-white film. Compared with the dazzling and colorful colors of the whole film, the simple black and white appearance of the black and white film makes people can't help but be shocked.
First of all, the simple black and white color is the praise and nostalgia of the filmmakers for the colorful "sunny days" of the past.
Second, black and white are not real color makeup in real life. We live in a colorful world. Therefore, the black and white here is the sublimation and refinement of life by the filmmakers. In other words, the black and white film here makes the last paragraph in the film detach from the narrative level of the film and reach the height of the symbolic and philosophical level.
"Lola Run" is an exciting, shocking, sentimental love movie, a fatalistic movie, a red movie.
The protagonist is a girl, and the protagonist is also red.
Red is used to the extreme.
Three colors are prominently used in the film: red, black, and white.
Black and white are dull colors, worldly colors, men's colors.
Red is the harsh color, the color of love, the color of romance, the color of Lola.
Lola's hair. The red phone of Lola's house. Color of the street background when Lola runs.
Among the various colors, red is the color that stimulates the visual organs of the person the most. At the same time, red is the color of blood, and red represents emotion and love. The use of red in the film is first reflected in the protagonist Lola.
The filmmakers of the film obviously felt that the red costumes and red props were no longer enough to express and praise The Gloria. So, they dyed Lola's hair red, the most striking and prominent part of Lola.
So, the red-haired Lola, for love, ran in the reinforced concrete city, in the chaotic streets, in a patch of yellow hair, white hair, black hair.
Lola's red hair resembles a red torch in the hands of an Olympic athlete. Burning in the torch is Lola's fiery love.