Aurelie's Movie Magic Project

 

A color is “the property possessed by an object that produces different physical sensations on the eye, as a result of the way it reflects or emits light”. As a form of non-verbal communication, color is therefore subjected to interpretation and its meaning can vary depending on individual, culture and circumstances as a non-static significance. [...] This is why the introduction of colors in media was such a revolution, particularly in movies. In fact, for the first time since the debut of the cinematography’s industry, directors were able to add another dimension to their images, a new way to communicate feelings to their audiences. [...] In order to interpret the way color is used in different films, I chose two clips visually different.  

 

The first movie clip I chose is [...] Marie-Antoinette [...]. I selected that one because I thought it was an interesting example of how colors are used to describe a state of mind, a situation, an era. [...]This movie clip is characterized by the multiplicity of colors, fabrics and tapestries, bright and glittery, which follow one another at a crazy speed: pink, yellow, green and gold; purple, red, blue and so on.
I decided to frame my mosaic with a very bright pink to represent femininity, love and beauty; centered in my work, the royalty is symbolized by a hand-fan made of different colored papers (striped, squared…) that look like the dozens of draperies Marie-Antoinette and her friends examine. On the bottom, I represented the idea of overconsumption, greed, insignificance, decline, bulimia of food and pleasures by these multi-colored cotillions [...].
Finally, on the top I added some gold touches, as bubbles of Champagne, suggesting wealth, prosperity, the people partying, as well as lightness, insignificance, futility.

In opposition to the previous movie clip I analyzed, the second one, Hero [...] is more pure and uncluttered, having a three colors base: red, black and the set orange/brown/yellow[...]. Indeed, this intensity of this fight scene clearly appears by the use of the color red [...] that contrasts with the [...] black [...] expressing the death, the mystery [...]. I chose a simple bicolored background: brown and light brown, to represent the earth and the order, and situated the fight action on the superior part with two red circles complemented with black Chinese signs symbolizing the long dark hair. A thick black line separating the mosaic indicates the opposition and the hostility.  
To finish, I glued very little squares of red and yellow paper to represent the leaves flying around the two opponents, with the awareness that yellow and red putted together do the color orange: the red for action, confidence and courage; the yellow for energy and wisdom; the orange for vitality and endurance.