Red
One of the most common conceptions of the colour Red would be danger. In day to day life, this colour is used in signs and warnings, making the colour well renowned as a negative thing, however this is most defiantly not always the case. The colour Red can cause and audience to feel a multitude of emotions, giving them an idea as to what is happening, or what will happen soon in the film. In a romantic film, red can mean passion, love, desire, lust, all of which are expected to be shown in this genre, but in other genres, such as action, red can mean violence, anger, rage, blood, war, and even energy. Red is defined as an emotionally intense colour, so even the slightest use of this colour can evoke the audience.
The colour Red will effect the way an audience view's a film drastically, which in extremely intense scenes is highly useful to the whole effect of the film. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure and has a very high visibility, which is why stop signs, stoplights, and fire equipment are usually painted red. It's intensity also makes the decline in drama more effective, taking the audience out of tough situations quickly and easily, giving them time to process the information fired at them within those few minutes. Because of this, our film would need to have high amounts of drama and uncertainty.
Green
There are two parallels to using the colour green, the suggestion of suggests stability and endurance, and the suggestion of outlandish and peculiar happenings. Because of these parallels, it is easy to interpret this colour into any film necessary.
There is a high tendency to use Green a lot in sci/fi films due to the high relevance to unrealistic and mythical beings from outer space, however for our film, we would most likely use this colour due to its peaceful nature. Throughout the beginning of our short film, we will be attempting to convince the audience that everything is normal, and that nothing strange is happening, but as things start to glitch and the protagonists world begins to crash, we will then need to create a sense of abnormality. Because of this, it will be difficult easy to use this colour all the way through our film, but that is less likely to be an option. We don't want to merge the normality and abnormality aspects of the film, its complex plot makes us want to ensure nothing else confuses the audience, be it subconsciously or obviously.
Yellow
Yellow is the colour of sunshine and is associated with joy, happiness, energy and intellect. It stimulates mental activity, produces a warming effect, generates muscle energy and makes people cheerful. Bright yellow gets people's attention but overuse can have a discomforting effect (babies tend to cry more in yellow rooms). Yellow is seen first when placed against black and the combination of the two colours is used to offer a warning. It used to represent honour on loyalty but now is more commonly associated with cowardice. Yellow is used to evoke pleasant and cheerful feelings. However, dull yellow represents sickness, decay, caution and jealousy.
We felt that the colour yellow suited the plot of our film best as the colour yellow, at first, brings to mind happiness and joy but too much of it can create a feeling that things aren't exactly as they seem. I though that this would be great for our film as David's life seems normal and almost perfect so the colour yellow would support this idea. However, later on in the film the audience realises that David's world isn't all that it was made out to be; therefore the meaning of the colour yellow would change to one of danger and an overpowering feeling that someone is trying to make him (and the audience) believe that everything is normal and happy.
To make sure the audience aren't overwhelmed by constant yellow items and a yellow tint, we will incorporate the colour more subtlety. In the opening scene, the film title is to be placed on a large wall in front of the lift; this wall will be yellow.
We could incorporate the colour yellow by using the wall below as one of our locations or, if we wanted the wall to be blank, we could use a green screen and make it that colour so it would look like that wall. We could also make David's tie that colour to show the audience that there is something not quite right about him. If we wanted to make it more subtle then we could change the colour temperature of the film in editing to give it a yellowish effect. This would probably be barely noticeable to the audience until the last scene, which takes place in reality, that won't have this effect so they can draw another comparison between the real world and the virtual one.
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