Comparative research

After I finished my short film, I made it to two visual effects, one is colourful and another one is black and white, in order to test the audience. I made it into one screen. It's more easy to compare these different pictures at the same time.

The same colour can be a connected symbol

In films, the same colour can be a link between different frames. We connect different objects with the same colour. Because of the changing objects, the audience can focus on the same colour and think about what is the relationship between these images. It can have the effect of metaphor for the film.  Sometimes, it also can create the new meanings for the story.

Like this advertisement. The blue colour is the main body to link different objects, make the film more consistently. During the audience watch this advertisement, the blue colour was repeated again and again through these visual images. It can make the audience remember this color or symbol. So that it also achieved the purpose of the advertisement - let the audience remember it.

Reflective: DSLR Tutorial

The most important thing is that you must plan your look before you even starting shooting your film. Think about what kind of films it is. It’s better to set the depth of field, colour, contrast and saturation. And the manual settings and control: iso, shutter speed and aperture.

Don’t over exposed images. Over exposure is one of the worst things that can happen to our footage, because you are losing details, details that we can’t bring back and post. It is better of the footage a little bit too dark. Then we can still corrected in post without losing details.

Analysis for my short film feedback

After I finished my short film, I made it to two visual effects, one is colourful and another one is black and white, in order to test the audience who are selected members of the cinema going public, get some feedback from them.

Here are the feedback comments.

 

For the first question, “When you watch films in generally, will you pay attention to the colours in the film?” almost all the people selected “yes” in my questionnaire, only one people selected “not sure”. We can know that, colour is a very important aspect that the audience will pay attention on that, especially for the women, they will spend more energy to pay attention on the colours in films.

Most of people think, the colorful things will bring people more happy feelings, so they can feeling happiness, cheerful and some happy emotions. Compare with the black and white part, some think it's not suitable for the story, so it looks a little bit strange. Otherwise, some people can not be attracted from the start of the black and white images. And some other people think that black and white part is more silent, dark and deep, feels like some bad things will happen.

Compare with The kaleidoscope part and the green screen part, the purpose of this part is to compare the different feelings about the Abstract color combination and the specific color combination. Most people like the green screen part, they feel a bit confused about kaleidoscope part, they can feel the green screen part more directly and can understand the story of that part, and they can also received the happy mood through that part.  The small percentages of people are more preferring kaleidoscope part, they felt that this part is more colourful and more abstract, and they can imagine many things through the colourful kaleidoscope images.

Questionnaire about colour in film

Questionnaire about colour in film

1.     When you watch films in generally, will you pay attention to the colours in the film?

 (  ) YES              (  ) NO             (  ) NOT SURE

 

2.     What emotions my short film brings to you?

(  ) Happiness    (  ) Cheerful    (  ) Distrusting   (  ) Trusting

 (  ) Confuse       (  ) Isolated    (  ) Lonely         (  ) Others_________

                   

3.     Did the use of colour in kaleidoscope part and green screen part make you have different feelings? What is it?

4.     After you watch this short film with black and white colour, what different feelings bring to you?

5.     Does it change the story with black and white colour?

Short Film " L'accordeur "

Directed by Olivier Treiner (2010)

Adrian is a genius pianist, he had learn piano for more than 15 years, , but he failed in a piano competition and then he fell to the bottom of his life. After a period of time Adrian refreshed to became a blind piano tuner. In fact he just wear contact lenses, it will make others think he hearing more acute, and thus get more sympathy and consumption, even peeking into other people's life and privacy, he is bound to immersed in such a place downtown and the detachment of somewhere else. One day, he came to work in a family, but it just happened together with murder.

This is really a good short film to see at least three times.

Concentration of 13 minutes tells us a lot of details through this short film. At The beginning in the frame of this film, an old man was sitting on the sofa, another man wear shorts to play the piano, feels peaceful, no one knows what happened in this room. And then, the music suddenly stopped, put an end to the sound of gunfire or door shutting (after I watch this film at the second time, it may not the door shutting sound). This is the most wonderful part, because the outcome is not important. The important thing is what you judge about it. We can know many different details about the story of this film after we watch it twice, even in the third time.

Reference: L'accordeur, 2010. [Film]. France: 2425 Films. [Directed by Olivier Treiner.]

Film：Turn left, turn right (2003)

Color as a symbol, it can highlight the theme of the images (the main characters and the main items).

Like this Chinese film - turn left, turn right. In the boundless huge crowd, two main characters have their own life, they don't know whether they can meet or not. The visual images in the film use a lot of black umbrellas and gloomy rainy day as the main tone. The actress - hang a red umbrella, the actor- hang the green umbrella.  Compare with the grey dark background, these two colorful umbrellas, can make the audience focus on it; the audience will notice the two main characters in the story immediately.