Carolyn_Ch6

 Statement:

    Reading about lighting, its production, and how it affects the “tone of your scene or film” was very interesting and felt like home. Growing up doing musical theatre and in stage productions, I have always understood that lighting is a key factor in creating the magic. The science of color association to emotions has always fascinated me and has always been affective in live theatre. I found that I heavily related things I already knew about stage lighting to film lighting. Top lights to hide a character’s eyes creates a disconnect with the audience. Using color to draw emotion about of the audience, to either connect with them more or have them discover something about a character without words. A good example of the use of color in film that I first thought of was how the Twilight movie franchise was shot. 

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/10/03/the-colors-of-twilight.html

Summary:

    This article provides many examples from the Twilight movies of the two main colors of the films: chestnut brown and desaturated turquoise. The films have a blue-ish green-ish hue to them that help create either an erie effect at times to a pleasant feeling. The author of the article mentions that the brown and blue and blue colors of the film complement each other well while also filtering out most red hues to anything on the camera screen.