Colour balance

Colour balancing refers to the process of removing an overall colour bias from an image. It’s very important in the frame through film. Complementary colour refers to the chromatography between one of the three primary colours and its corresponding form a mutually complementary relationship.

There are three primary colours: red, yellow, blue. The three primary colours of each two groups of colours called three matching, such as red and yellow makes orange, yellow and blue makes green, blue and red makes purple, orange, green, and purple called secondary colour. Red and green, orange and blue, yellow and purple is mutually complementary relationship.

Because of the complementary colour has strong separability in colour painting's performance, in the proper position properly using the complementary colour, not only can strengthen the colour contrast, pull out the distance, but also can show the special visual contrast and effect balance.

Changed some detail about MA phase timetable

MA phase

Week 44-45: Continue to read some books, journals and articles relate to my project.

Week 46-47: Search for production design and set design books, and find the information which relates to use of colour in pre-production phase.

Week 48: Do some experimental test for different lens with the same camera, to find out what different colour between them. Make a plan for shooting some sequences of my third short film.

Week 49: Expo tutorials. Shoot for the film

Week 50: Interview the tutor who teach Design for Film, TV and Event.

Week 53-3: Summer break. Editing my short film and finish it.

Week 4: Prepare for the Expo

Week 5-6: Expo

Week 7: MA assessment

Reflective journal: Designing Film: Szenenbilder/ Production Desugns (2010). Part 2

Creating a mood board

By precisely projecting images in the plans and storyboards, it can be seen what sort of camera optics or lenses are needed to achieve certain images. In small spaces in particular, it sometimes makes sense to film small groups using wide-angle lenses, since they will not result in precipitous lines and undesirable image distortion. This can affect set construction, so in this case, moveable walls can be included in the design, making room for the camera and thus allowing the use of longer lenses, which will concentrate images in the depth.

Reference:

Toni Lüdi. 2010. Designing Film: Szenenbilder/Production Designs (German and English Edition). Edition. Bertz + Fischer.

Reflective journal: Designing Film: Szenenbilder/ Production Desugns (2010). Part 1

How to create beautiful colours in the frames of film is very complicate, it has many aspects. The position if the sun, lighting, the placement of windows in the studio sets, or the selection of suitable lights, the flickering light of a neon tube, candle light: all of these are aspects a production designer must think about and decide upon before shooting begins.

Colours should be selected according to two criteria: first, how does one specific colour work with other colours in the film, in the previous scene, in the next one. It should be continued to support the atmosphere of the scene. Second, let audience react the feeling of the colours in the frame of films. Will the image convey the “warm” mood desired? All the information need to be convey to the audience.

Reference:

Toni Lüdi. 2010. Designing Film: Szenenbilder/Production Designs (German and English Edition). Edition. Bertz + Fischer.

The colour palette for the film

The director of the film “Black Swan” have mentioned that "when you start with a colour film, you start with a colour." We have noticed from that, colour play a very important role in colour films. Colour is the kind of sort to approach to framing. What type of the frame and how this frame going to be work? What kind of environment they are tried to create? And the subtext happens within the frames, because the actors, set design, the costume, the quality of lens, they are all given subtext, which includes a lot of colour information in it. And the director put every aspect of art and craft into the frame.

Amy Westcott, the costume designer in Black Swan also mentioned that, “the colour palette in Black Swan is very specific. Everything had to be camera tested because there was so much colour fluctuation to be fine tuned with fabrics. Film stock can really change the look of the colour, so the costume designer had to get the tones down, and go from there.”

She also used the palette to show the evolution of Nina and Lily’s characters, the polar opposite personalities. The pink for Nina and grey and black for Lily. And then she carefully worked in some grey into Nina and slowly worked in some pink into Lily, and by the end of the movie, Nina has some black, and it is more black and grey – she almost loses the pink – and Lily is in some white with grey, she didn't lighten. Slowly, as Nina’s character unravels, her colours become darker.

Reference:

http://clothesonfilm.com/black-swan-amy-westcott-interview/18997/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z5zZ3Uq0QaU#!

Favourite colour by gender

Our preference for a specific colour can be related to how we feel in any situation, how we want to feel, and even how we remember certain experiences. This pie chart presents the survey participants preferences and how they relate to gende

As we can see, Blue is the most favorite colour in this pie chart. Blue is an interesting color in that people tend to choose it as a favorite, but it is usually associated with sadness and depression. Although some studies have suggested that blue can represent feelings that are sad or not happy, people tend to like the hue of blue because they have a calming and relaxing affect.

This article also did some analysis some favorite color by gender. The two pie charts below represent favorite colors of each gender. As we can see, the most popular colour is also blue. For female, the second one is purple. For male is green.

A review of color studies by Eysenck in the early 1940’s notes that St. George (1938) maintained that blue for men stands our far more than for women. Related to different colors, Eysenck’s study also found that the most significant gender difference is yellow being preferred to orange by women and orange to yellow by men.

Degree show: part three ( costume design and theater design)

After watching the degree show, I think collecting different sources from outside world are really very important for the creation of our own works; get inspiration from life or other people's work, that resources can effectively explore your own research.

Degree show: part two ( Textile design and fine art )