Monday, 4 April 2011

c)colour

With the scene being set in a club the colours are appropriate. The strobe lights are all different colours which is pleasing to the eye and when the lights aren't on the colour is dark to show it is a dark room and it is at night. The colours in the  intro don't resemble anything to do with the characters but the fact that it is a night club does because the characters are into the party scene. The colours used are red, yellow, blue, green and pink. Blue is the dominant colour because it is shown more often. The colours aren't well defined in the intro, you cant see much colour on the people in the club, just the colour of their t shirts etc to make the strobe lights more eye catching.
This movie is set in the nineties, the colours of that era were bright but not fluorescent. The lights in the club set the date because they are all the basic bright colours. Some of the clothes in the 90s were dull colours and you see this when the camera shot goes to a person walking around the club in their dull clothes.




The colours in the opening scene are similar to those used in the rest of the film because of the era it is set in, those colours are bright reds, greens, blues and yellows.Films also made in the 90's would have similar colours to those in the film because the bright (but not fluorescent colours) were a trend. The colours don't change in the opening scene don't change until the opening scene is over because the opening scene is set in a night club and once the opening is over, the beginning of the movie is set in a restaurant. The colours are appropriate for the film as a whole because it is suitable for the audience the film was hoping to attract ( the teenagers of the 1990's) because the colours of the clothes worn in the opening are the same as the clothes worn by the teenagers of the 1990's. The colours in this scene compare with other films set in a night club because the bright colours are appropriate fr strobe lights, you wouldn't want dull, dark colours in a club.

1 comment:

  1. A good description of the technique and your example. You have started to explain why it is used in this opening scene as well. Expand on this: how do these colours compare with colours used in films of the same genre? When do the colours change in the opening scene? Why? How do the colours used relate to the themes and ideas in the film as a whole?

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