Color & Story

Part 2
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 Assigning Color
Creating Meaning & concept
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 An Example
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 What’s Story?
You can tell the whole story with Color
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 Places to Define Color

• Characters

• Danger

• Thematic / World of the Movie

• Conflict

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 Characters
Applying a Color or Harmony to your Characters
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 Intro to the Villain Harmony
Purple,Yellow, & Green
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 The Transformation
And what colors do we see?
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 Everyone gets a Theme Song
and it all gets mixed together
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 Danger
What color does Danger look like?
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 Green?
It doesn’t need to be red
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 Blue?
It can be whatever you pick as long as you repeat it
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 The Broad Concept
Applying ONE Color Idea to the whole movie
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 Some Examples
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 Browns = Dry/Lack of Water
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 Grey = World in Decline
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 Blue = Night
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 What to know

• Can express a basic idea about the world

• Lacks interest. Gets boring without contrast

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 Color as Conflict
Two(or more) colors fighting for Dominance
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 Orange vs Blue
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 Warms vs Cools
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 Neutrals vs Cools/Sat
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 Cools becoming Warms
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 Freytag’s Pyramid
Intro to 5 Act Structure
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 UP
color script
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 Your Homework

• Complete your painting from last week.

• Make a list of your color intentions - ie. red = danger.

(you don’t need to use all of the categories)

• Do a Color Script. Pay the most attention to the 5 areas on freytag’s

pyramid. Fit you existing paintings on to the color script

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