Color Theory asserts that, in addition to language, plot, and performers, color perception and lighting are crucial attributes that filmmakers use to orchestrate emotional undertones. Understanding the pragmaticism of color grading extends beyond technical understanding, it’s one thing to produce good colors but it is a completely different thing to have the color palette serve the plot. The use of color extenuates beyond films, and marketing advertisements but also interior design to promote productivity within your home.
Have you ever heard of the color wheel?
Color theory is a practical application of art and science. Isaac Newton developed the color wheel when he mapped the color spectrum onto a circle. Two hues that are opposite each other on the color wheel are considered complementary. This color combination has strong contrast and high effect — when these shades are combined, they seem richer and more prominent. Analogous colors, reference adjacent colors, while triadic uses three colors equally spaced.
Colors are shaped by hue (color), saturation (intensity) and brightness (the darkness/lightness). Each characteristic influences the index value.
A color's emotional undertone is unrelated to film and specifically relates to our own inherent psychology. The sensations that any particular hue evokes in a person are the same whether they read the phrase, hear people speaking, or see it physically on film.
COLOR MEANINGS
Aggression, happiness, love, and passion are all represented by red colors. It is often associated with movement, ambition, strength, violence, and femininity.
Orange is a color that signifies happiness, creativity, exotic, sociability, and excitement.
Yellow is considered a happy, lively, sick, and upbeat hue.
Green is commonly associated with nature, healing, corruption, and relaxation.
Blue is frequently associated with coolness, isolation, cerebral, and tranquility.
Purple is a color that exudes regal undertones, elegance, refinement, power, mystical, ethereal, and authority.
Black conjures up images of sadness, dread, mystery, and evil, yet it can also conjure up images of simplicity, tradition, and refinement.
White has become the conventional hue for purity and innocence, faith, honesty, and happiness.
Brown conjures us images of roughness, firmness, and hardness, as well as authenticity.