Do you know "tone"?

The tone of the picture is mainly composed of light gray to white and colors with high brightness level, which is high-key, also called bright tone, bright tone and light tone. High-profile pictures are generally used to express special psychological emotions such as hallucinations, dreams, fantasies, joys and lyricism.

low key

The tone of the picture is mainly composed of gray to black and colors with low brightness level, which is low-key, also called dark tone and deep tone. Contrary to high-profile, photographers mainly use the middle part of the film characteristic curve to the toe when shooting this form of picture tone. General night scenes, caves, coal mines and other environments are conducive to creating a low-key picture effect. Low-key picture is also a form of picture tone, which is often used to express deep, depressed, depressed, nervous, scary and other psychological emotions and environmental atmosphere.

Difficult to tune

Hard-tuned picture atmosphere is generally used to express the atmosphere of war, terror, depression and anxiety. For example, the description of the war in the movie "The Dawn is Silent here" was shot in black and white film, and the picture was deliberately processed into hard tones to emphasize the cruelty of the war; The film "FACE/OFF" uses strong contrast and hard tones to deal with low-key pictures, which sets off a horrible atmosphere.

A soft tune

The characteristics of soft tone picture style are: (1) the contrast between light and shade and color in the picture is soft, and the contrast between adjacent two tones is small; (2) Photographers often use scattered light and frontal light to reduce the projection of the scene or dilute the dark part of the shadow. (3) The formation of soft tone picture effect is closely related to the choice of shooting scene, lighting mode, equipment parameters, optical lens and exposure.

Halftone

Midrange is the most commonly used tone form in movies. It has two meanings: first, the relationship between light and shade of picture tone; The first is the contrast between light and shade of the picture tone. From the perspective of the relationship between light and shade, it is between low-key map and high-key map. The contrast of the bright and dark parts of the picture is moderate, and the dark, gray, bright and bright levels in the picture (that is, gradual changes) are rich, and the transition between light and dark is smooth.

The above is about the sharing of color tones in film and television production. I hope it will help everyone. If you want to know more, please pay attention to this platform in time!