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The Role of Color
Because of its distinct perceptual characteristics, color is most easily accepted by the public. In the hands of directors, color becomes an overall symbol and ideographic factor. Through the transformation of environment and clothing color, it shows the transformation of characters’ character and deduces the release of human nature. The technical level of a film mainly depends on its proper comprehensive use of several colors.
Color is an important element of film language. However, in the film and television art, it is relatively late for color to play the ideographic function beyond its original color. For a long time, color only plays its realistic function of reappearing objective things in the film. Later, in the continuous artistic practice, the modeling function and ideographic function of color are gradually excavated. Antonioni, a film master who is good at using color to express and model, once said: “when shooting color films, it is necessary to intervene and take away the common reality, replace it with the reality of the time. “
Rudolph once pointed out that “color produces emotional experience.” Different colors evoke different emotions, and even show different symbolic meanings in different cultural environments, because colors have certain psychological tendencies. The color in film and television should be higher, more perfect, more infectious and artistic than in real life. It, together with the color collocation and change of scenery and surrounding environment, can set off the color of the whole film, so as to shape the characters and express their temperament.
How the Director Determines the Right Color
In very perfect, the director achieves the different effects required by the film by means of color cooling, shading, contrast and other ways of expression, so that the audience can get the visual experience consistent with the development of the film’s plot or the emotional development of the characters, The scene in the film has the most sense of design and the most wonderful use of color is Sophie’s.
In Sophie’s home, we can see not only the green walls and red reclining chairs, but also the blue floor tiles, yellow sofas and purple murals. The bold use of various colors, the fierce collision of strong color blocks and the ingenious combination of different color blocks make the overall style and color of Sophie’s home gorgeous, with the retro and luxury of Europe, It is also permeated with today’s sense of fashion and modernity, which not only reflects Sophie’s fantasy ability as an artist and cartoonist, but also reflects the protagonist’s happiness, anger and sadness through different angles and colors of the interior with the development of the plot.
For example, at the beginning of the film, when Sophie is sick and bedridden after lovelorn, the first pictures are dark red wallpaper and dark bedding. The use of this dark color appropriately sets off Sophie’s depression when she is lovelorn. It is also the scene of Sophie sitting in bed. When Sophie is ready to fight back, There are orange phones and light desk lamps in the picture, and the bedding becomes light blue. The obvious change of this color reflects the change of the protagonist Sophie’s state from being depressed to fighting high.
When Chang Rui, who is decorated by He Rundong, enters Sophie’s life, Sophie’s brighter colors, more jumping colors and more jumping color combinations gradually appear in the film, which also implies that Sophie’s life and emotional experience will be different from the past.
For another example, in the film my father and mother, the narration of father’s death is expressed in black and white, while the narration of mother’s love and happiness is described in color, with bright colors to contrast the difference between sadness and happiness.
Significance of Colors in Movie and TV Works
Although the visual function of clothing color in film and television is only a small part of the big concept of color, without it, film and television works are equal to the lack of soul, and its use is an integral part of personality shaping. The characters in the movie hero, through the color modeling, turn into the symbols of heroes. In the change of the color of pickled vegetables, they are full of heroic charm. Liang Chaowei’s cool in green, Maggie Cheung’s beautiful in white and Jet Li’s resolute in black all show classical charm.
In “the red lantern hanging high”, the costume design is gradually changing from simple elegance to strong color, which has become an intuitive symbol of the tragic fate of the heroine Songlian. Everyone in the film treats everything around her with extreme indifference. Therefore, the costume stylist Tong Huashen uses warm colors, ivory white, black, goose yellow, silver gray, bright blue and dark red to form the color tone of the costume, The elegant lines of Oriental women are set off by the black symbolizing power and death to show the character.
In these works, we can see the cultural meaning represented by the symbolic meaning of clothing color modeling, and the different main colors of clothing of different characters can reflect the special character of the characters themselves, and also reflect the ups and downs of the inner state of the characters in the process of plot development.
For example, in perfect, when Sophie takes the first step in her revenge plan, she wears an orange cloak and goes to find Jeff. The orange here shows that “she is competitive and does not give up. Once she makes a decision, she must stick to it.” When Sophie helped Chang Rui to hold the film exhibition, she regained her spirits and wore a sapphire blue evening dress that made the audience amazing. The blue here conveys Sophie’s politeness, humility and excellent coordination ability. Lu Xiaoxi, who changes her boyfriends faster than clothes, often wears black, which represents her independence, mystery and sexuality as a feminist.
Another example is the British film Jane Eyre, in which the heroine is always dressed in black and brown. When Rochester falls in love with her, she changes into a white plain dress for the first time, with the setting sun, grass and tree vines on the back, showing her happiness of first love. When she heard that Rochester left without saying goodbye and was about to marry a lady, she was in pain and changed into brown clothes. From the perspective of color psychology, it explains the inner fluctuation of the characters and promotes the development of the plot to a certain extent. Especially in the contemporary film and television works of China, clothing color collocation and color change, not only contains a large number of fashion elements, but also surpasses people’s color cognition in the real world, and realizes the deepening of the theme and the interpretation of the content.
The performance of film and television color is like our perception of life, the release of human nature, and the aesthetic function of metaphor symbol is an important function of color for film and television. Although film and television is a kind of realistic art, the creators will more or less use some means to create subjectively to achieve a certain emotion and artistic conception. Color naturally has an attribute that affects people’s psychological emotion, so it is more favored by film and television creators as a means of film and television modeling.