One cinematic technique filmmakers use to influence the emotional experience of their viewers..
is with color:
Let’s go over the types of color schemes you can employ to create a balanced movie color palette:
MONOCHROMATIC COLOR SCHEMES
A monochromatic color scheme is when a single base “hue” is extended out using shades, tones, and tints. Tints are achieved by adding whites, and shades by adding black.
Monochromatic color schemes create a deeply harmonious feeling that is soft, lulling and soothing.
The Matrix is another good example. Nearly every scene set within the world of the matrix utilizes a green color palette. Shades of green permeate everything in the frame to create an unnatural, “sickly” effect.
COMPLEMENTARY COLOR SCHEMES
Complementary color schemes are when two colors from opposite sides of the color wheel
The effect of this is to create a visual ‘life’ in the frame. Red and green, in the instance of Amelie cited below, both pop more in the presence of their complementary color.
Contrasting drama (i.e. warm vs. cool), complementary colors live opposite each other on the color wheel. For example, orange and blue are complementary colors commonly used in the color palettes of many blockbuster films.
INTERMEDIATE COLOR SCHEMES
Analogous or intermediate color schemes utilize colors that are next to one another on the color wheel. They tend to occur in nature and create a harmonious feeling that is pleasing to the eye.
Children of Men’s analogous color scheme seemed to match the dangerous state of its world; there were no more men being born.
PRIMARY COLOR SCHEMES
A triadic or primary color scheme is when three colors that are evenly spaced around the complementary color wheel are used in conjunction.
Primary color schemes are somewhat less common, but they tend to lend themselves to a “comic book” type of color palette.
TRANSITIONAL COLOR SCHEMES
Transitional color usage is when a change in colors and color palette indicates a shift of some sort.
Over the course of the series Breaking Bad, Walter White lives a double life as alter ego Heisenberg.
The Walter White color palette is lighter, softer and has a use of cooler primary color palette. Heisenberg as a much darker, yet still analogous color palette.
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