Download e-book for iPad: If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in by Patti Bellantoni

By Patti Bellantoni

ISBN-10: 0240806883

ISBN-13: 9780240806884

If it's pink, Someone's Gonna Die is a must-read ebook for all movie scholars, movie pros, and others drawn to filmmaking. This enlightening publication courses filmmakers towards making the ideal colour decisions for his or her movies, and is helping motion picture buffs comprehend why they think the way in which they do whereas staring at video clips that contain yes colours.

Guided via her twenty-five years of study at the results of colour on habit, Bellantoni has grouped greater than 60 movies less than the spheres of impression of six significant shades, each one of which triggers very particular emotional states. for instance, the writer explains that movies with a dominant pink effect have issues and characters which are robust, lusty, defiant, nervous, offended, or romantic and discusses particular movies as examples. She explores each one movie, describing how, why, and the place a colour impacts feelings, either within the characters on monitor and within the viewers. every one colour part starts with an illustrated domestic web page that incorporates examples, anecdotes, and information for utilizing or warding off that individual color.

Conversations with the author's colleagues-- together with award-winning creation designers Henry Bumstead (Unforgiven) and Wynn Thomas (Malcolm X) and popular cinematographers Roger Deakins (The Shawshank Redemption) and Edward Lachman (Far From Heaven)--reveal how colour is usually used to speak what's no longer acknowledged.

Bellantoni makes use of her study and event to illustrate how robust colour should be and to extend readers information of the colours round us and the way they make us consider, act, and react.

*Learn how your number of colour can impact an audience's moods, attitudes, reactions, and interpretations of your movie's plot
*See your favourite movies in a brand new mild because the writer issues out vital makes use of of colour, either instinctive and intentional
*Learn tips on how to make solid colour offerings, on your movie and on your global.

*Learn how your number of colour can impression an audience's moods, attitudes, reactions, and interpretations of your movie's plot
*See your favourite movies in a brand new gentle because the writer issues out vital makes use of of colour, either instinctive and intentional
*Learn tips to make solid colour offerings, on your movie and on your international

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She wears a leather jacket the color of a red-orange chili pepper. If there ever was a perfect example of color as character, this is it. Red defines who Helen is. Her animal presence is so powerful, it’s scary. She’s so sexy even the camera sidles up to her the first time she’s onscreen. Helen is a woman who knows what she wants (and what she doesn’t). ” In less than two minutes of screen time, she’s outta the bar, leaving Frank in the dust before he could get her fingerprints on her wineglass.

A few months went by with no appreciable change. Frustrated, they ultimately searched for an answer in the dining room itself. As the only thing that had changed was the color, they decided to change the color back to the original pale yellow. They stopped fighting almost immediately. Bright red tends to be cold. Power-hungry Sigourney Weaver wears red in Working Girl, and in The Sixth Sense the cold-blooded murderer wears it at a funeral. This aggressive quality of bright red is somehow tempered when the color becomes warmer.

When we return downstairs, we are jolted by the red fury again—a mother who wears red at her daughter’s funeral. THE PURPLE OMEN ᭡ In the opening sequence, a lone bulb silhouettes a dimly lit wine cellar. It is as if we are hiding behind the shelves as we watch a woman in an iridescent purple dress descend the stairs. We don’t see who she is. Shyamalan doesn’t show us her face. It’s the color, iridescent and shimmering, that is the first real color we see. She selects a bottle and returns upstairs where her husband is waiting.

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