Draft statement about my research

Xu Li trained in china as a television editor and director and on coming to the UK, to begin her Masters, began to the research use of colour management through film making workflow, and try to find some useful ways help film makers to use of colour get the high quality of visual images apply to films, interactive media, new media and exhibition to react audience.

Because of she studied painting in high school, she became get interested in the functions of colours, especially use of colour in films.

So she starts to do the research about use of colour in pre-production and post-production phase during film making workflow.

She found some effect of colour on the viewer: colour can attracts audience attention, contribute to three-dimensionality and create an impression or feeling of temperature. She made a short film to test audience. In the short film, she made a comparison between green screen effect and kaleidoscope effect, both effects she used plenty of high saturated colour. After the test, she found that the viewers can't focused on massive no meaning colours for long time, they don't know what objects is this colour on, after a short period, they will feel boring. Compare with the specific colour (colours on an objects, although it is not very natural), the audience can continue to stay in the story and they will not feel bored very easily.

She also used different lends, lighting skills and projecting to make some experimental video clips to find how to manipulate colour saturation in different ways.

With the development of audience’s requirement through colour films, the film makers need to stay current with developments in colour and keep its impact on viewers in mind as they plan a movie’s visual design.