Color Aesthetics in Movies

To make a good film, besides a solid script, excellent actors and directors, photography is absolutely indispensable. Excellent photographers can express the director's intention more clearly through their own lens language and add points to the whole film through the picture.

Sometimes, after watching a movie, the plot is forgotten, but you will never forget the classic scene. This is the meaning of photography.

The iconic figures of China films, Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei, were both from photography, and their early works also established their own strong personal style. The characteristics of Du Kefeng's hand-held mirror, such as hand-held shooting, wide-angle shooting, peeping angle, etc., directly contributed to the demeanor of Sunglasses King. Even Shunji Iwai, whom I liked very much when I was young, I think his royal photographer Noboru Shinoda (a famous Japanese photographer) took the mirror of almost all the early films in Shunji Iwai, such as Undo, Love Letter, Swallowtail Butterfly, Sleepwalker, The Story of April, Everything about Zhou Lili and Flowers and Alice. At first, he hasn't made any decent films after his death.

The importance of photographers is self-evident.

But all the work of a photographer is confined to a box with equal proportions. Every frame of a film shot by an excellent photographer will be a static work of art .. and color plays a decisive role in it. The use of color determines the artistic conception, suggestion and plot trend of this scene.

Graphic designer Ruby Radulescu gave a theme called "Color Movie" to analyze the importance of chromatography in those classic movie scenes.

The purpose of this project is to establish a frame of reference for friends who are engaged in this field or want to learn. They can learn from the use of these scene colors and add them to other art forms such as photography and painting.