Found this terrific video online demonstrating the use of color and the psychology of color to shape the overall mood and reinforce the underlying concepts being put forth in a movie. Color is an incredibly powerful tool at the disposal of filmmakers in telling our stories. At the beginning...
Continue reading ...In this film, Project Eden, I’ve broken it down from the films color palette to the location scout to the overhead sketch to the concept artist’s final renderings. This needed to be an outdoor set for a group of people living in a tent community. The film was being shot in New Zealan...
Continue reading ...Color Blindness is a fascinating thing to me as color is the basis of my work. They way color is interpreted has an effect on the work I do. Like if there going to put a blue wash over the whole film. I need to think about that in my initial color palette. Just like in the old black a...
Continue reading ...This is a fun tool and exercise and it helps you make color palettes. Color Palette Generator: https://coolors.co/ Another exercise is to watch good films and breakdown their color palettes. It will help you with your design work....
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As a Production Designer for film, Print/Photography & Commercials I use a color palette and mood boards for the whole project but also for each character and wardrobe change. Each color invokes a mood. For example red is strong, powerful, outgoing and blue is calm, casual & can be masc...
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