color in cinema

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Brief history of color in cinema

4Hand colored films

Pathé Color, dating from around 1905

Hand coloring evolved to a fairly high level of sophistication, as can be seen in the frame from The Last Days of Pompeii produced in Italy in 1926.

5Kinemacolor

First successful color system

A simpler system using two colors was developed in 1906 and then Kinemacolor was born

Kinemacolor was one of Technicolor's primary rivals in the period prior to 1920.

The Delhi Durbar (1912) – British color documentary

6Cinecolor

Cinecolor Corporation came into being in 1932

Cinecolor used two films in "bi-pack", meaning that two films were placed emulsion to emulsion

The first feature film to use the process was The Gentleman from Arizona

Color recording capability of Cinecolor was not accurate, it was, nonetheless realistic looking.

1948 Super Cinecolor with three colors came

7Kodachrome (1935)

Subtractive color processes proved far more practical to exhibit than were additive systems. This is because standard projectors could be used to show the films which had only one composite color record for each frame.

Recorded its color records on separate frames, using a camera carrying two negatives

8Technicolor

Technicolor Corporation was founded in 1915.

Two color additive system

System 4 : 3 color- Technicolor (1932-55) Flowers and Trees by Disney (32)

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Color and Moods

Personal Experience

Tradition/Culture

Nature

10Blue & Red

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12COLOR SYMBOLISM

anger passion rage desire

excitement energy speed strength

power heat love aggression

danger fire blood war violence

13RUN LOLA RUN (Tom Tykwer, 1998) Lola has twenty minutes to find 100,000 marks to saveManni’s life. Red is her visual fuel.

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)Ruby Slippers : Red – Power

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If it’s purple, someone’s gonna

die

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- Patti Bellantoni

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DO WE

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color is often used to communicate what is NOT said

NEED TO

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At the moment, I don't think color film is anything more than a commercial gimmick. I don't know a single film that uses color well…….

In everyday life we seldom pay any special attention to color. ……

On the screen color imposes itself on you, whereas in real life that only happens at odd moments, so it's NOT right for the audience to be constantly aware of color. ”

Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966 Interview

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18Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock – 1958

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MADELINE

JUDY

SCOTTIE

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Green : possessive and materialistic Red: Danger; Romance

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Yellow: warmth; comfort; real

Purple: selfhood

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Red: Jealousy

Blue: gulit; sad

Ruby Necklace putting a stop to the obsession

22Use of color by M. Night Shyamalan

The Sixth Sense, 1999

Unbreakable, 2000

Signs, 2002

The Village, 2004

The Happening, 2008

Devil, 2010

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Red Objects: connection with the dead

The Sixth Sense

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Hero Villain

Unbreakable

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Mother

Signs

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Repel ‘Creatures’ Attract ‘Creatures’The Village

27Bhansali’s Saawariyan

Blue: Melancholy

Red : Love, sensuality

28Anurag Kashyap

Red: Power and DangerGulaal (2009)

Red: AngerBlack Friday (2004)

29The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Yellow - Wealth, KnowledgeEmerald Green : Life, Harmony

Ruby Slippers : Red – Power, Blood

Green : Virulent

30Lusty , Powerful & Defiant

31Visual Name : Girl in the red coat

The irony of personalizing this color that symbolizes both birth and death sets us up for the shock when we last see her, lifeless, in the pile of nameless corpses traveling to a mass grave.

Her coat is not pink, the color of little girls. It isred, robbed of its power.

32Yellow : Obsessive, Caution

Taxi Driver (1976) by Martin ScorseseTravis Bickle, stalks his dream girl.

Age of Innnocence (1993) by Martin ScorseseNewland sends Ellen yellow flowers instead of red

33Blue : Powerless

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) by Frank Darabont

The Sense and Sensibility (1995) by Ang Lee

34Purple: Murder, Mystery, Illusion

Chicago (2002) by Rob Marshall Dick Tracy (1990) by Warren Beatty

35Sin City : Color in Black & White

36Memento : Use of alternate colored and Black & White sequences

37Peeping Tom : Saturated Colors

38References

http://people.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/On_Color.html

http://filmdirectingtips.com/archives/157

http://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/vertigo

http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-green.html

If it’s purple, someone’s gonna die by Patti Belantoni

http://en.wikipedia.org

http://www.widescreenmuseum.com