Patti Bellantoni's If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in PDF

By Patti Bellantoni

ISBN-10: 0240806883

ISBN-13: 9780240806884

If it's crimson, Someone's Gonna Die is a must-read ebook for all movie scholars, movie pros, and others attracted to filmmaking. This enlightening e-book publications filmmakers towards making the perfect colour decisions for his or her movies, and is helping motion picture buffs comprehend why they believe the way in which they do whereas gazing videos that contain convinced shades.

Guided by way of her twenty-five years of analysis at the results of colour on habit, Bellantoni has grouped greater than 60 motion pictures below the spheres of impression of six significant shades, each one of which triggers very particular emotional states. for instance, the writer explains that motion pictures with a dominant crimson impression have subject matters and characters which are strong, lusty, defiant, apprehensive, offended, or romantic and discusses particular movies as examples. She explores every one movie, describing how, why, and the place a colour impacts feelings, either within the characters on display and within the viewers. every one colour part starts off with an illustrated domestic web page that incorporates examples, anecdotes, and counsel 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 frequently used to speak what's no longer acknowledged.

Bellantoni makes use of her learn and adventure to illustrate how robust colour could be and to extend readers know-how of the colours round us and the way they make us think, act, and react.

*Learn how your collection of colour can effect 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 the way to make reliable 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 motion pictures in a brand new mild because the writer issues out very important makes use of of colour, either instinctive and intentional
*Learn the way to make reliable colour offerings, on your movie and on your international

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PASSIVE BLUES ᭡ One of the things you’ll learn about really seeing films is there is almost always a color theme on screen. It’s just hiding, waiting for you to see it. But it’s there to influence you. The color of Kevin Spacey’s office is not really gray. This blue undertone affects how you perceive Lester. It is the quintessential pale gray-blue that signals passivity and powerlessness, similar to Tobey Maguire’s character in The Cider House Rules. It is the pale gray-blue of the kind of day when you feel like doing nothing.

With all of this “redness” going on, we are visually held hostage and kept in a state of panic throughout the movie. When we are unexpectedly released and Lola and Manni simply walk away, we want to call them (from the red phone booth) back, and have them do it all over again. After all, red has made us compulsive too. 22 Chapter 2 Anxious, Angry, and Romantic Reds Angry Reds Philadelphia 1993. Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas. Directed by Jonathan Demme. Cinematography: Tak Fujimoto; Production Design: Kristi Zea.

Sensitive to Joe’s initial homophobia, Andy asks if he “minds” opera. Joe shakes his head and Andy begins to translate from the Italian. As if strengthened by the music, Andy rises, leaning on his IV stand for support. The camera moves to a downshot of Hanks. For the remainder of the scene, when the camera is on Hanks, it keeps us in the air. Andy narrates the story . . a mother’s death . . “Do you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it, Joe . . ‘I bring sorrow to those who love me .

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