It's to no surprise that a teenager like myself would have watched the popular HBO Max show ✨Euphoria✨, which is a pretty controversial show. But one thing I love about it is its visuals. Sometimes I ignore the plot and just admire how they use color and lighting to develop the tone of each scene and each episode, as well as developing characters and their feelings. I've been addicted (no pun intended) to the second season of the show and I put two and two together: if I need to write from what I know, then what do I know better than teenage drama and trauma? 👍 So there you have it folks, here begins my journey to create the next coming-of-age teen drama that focuses mainly on the struggles of the modern life of teenagers and how this internet-based world affects their, our, mental health.
Scene from Euphoria:
Because I'm an incredibly curious person (sigh) I jumped straight to researching color in the creation of movies, and to my surprise came across a variety of articles in which I chose to read further into.
"The definition of Film Color Theory is a theory
that states that certain colors in film elicit certain emotions from the
audience. Manipulation of these colors can be used to guide the audience toward
the intent of the author, juxtaposed against one another to send a message, or
subverted to create dramatic irony." -No Film School
https://nofilmschool.com/Film-color-theory-and-color-schemes
What this quote basically means is that colors and lighting in a production can unconsciously achieve a mood for the audience, for example, if the main color in a scene is blue, it is likely that the audience will feel sad, or feel the depressive tone of the piece, and sometimes without their acknowledgment. What I seek to accomplish with this is that in my piece I want the audience to feel overwhelmed alongside the character (I wanted to do something that relates to how someone with anxiety feels) and have the scene slowly go from a depressive blue to a burning red of madness and anger.
When
telling a story, colors:
·
Elicit psychological reactions
·
Draw focus to significant details
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Set the tone of the movie
· Represent character traits
. Show changes or arcs in the story
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/how-to-use-color-in-film-50-examples-of-movie-color-palettes/
As I said previously I want my piece to evoke feelings in the audience without them really understanding why, maybe they'll think they're empathizing with the character, but in reality, they'll be relating themselves with the character. Most teenagers nowadays have felt this anxiety or fear of what the world and the people on the internet think of them, and I want my piece to address that. As the lights shift from blue to red we'll also see the change of the character's mental state and emotions as they become more and more overwhelmed.
Some examples of Color Theory being used in movies are:
Now the movie, The Passion of Anna, directed by Ingmar Bergman, utilizes a change in color schemes throughout the movie to juxtapose two different sub-plots. The color red represents the passion of the relationships and the violence towards the animals.
"Bergman (or perhaps, cinematographer Sven Nykvist) establishes the emotional connotations of red in a beautifully simplistic change in color: in a sequence between Andreas and Eva the color changes from the cold blues, to hot reds, only moments after Eva kisses Andreas’ cheek for the first time." -http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/10-great-movies-that-use-color-to-signify-a-change-in-narrative-or-emotion/
I like the example of The Passion of Anna because the scenes not only utilize mise-en-scene elements with the juxtaposed colors but the overall look of the different scenes of the movie are in those colors, and that is more similar to the approach I decided to take with this project. Here's a picture as an example.
Sources:
https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/film-movies-color-psychology/
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/how-to-use-color-in-film-50-examples-of-movie-color-palettes/
https://nofilmschool.com/Film-color-theory-and-color-schemes
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-color-psychology-of-purple-2795820
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