Introduction to Color in Film Preliminary Exercise 5: Black & White Color Grids

 11/10/2022

     For this portion of my introduction, I was able to analyze films that featured frames with black and white color. The color black has connotations of death, darkness, the cold, and fear. Whereas, the color white has the connotations; life, death, mystical forces, and isolation in some cases. In the slide focused on the color black the director of MIB use the color black to establish the difference between the secret society and normal civilians, as you could see throughout the movie there are almost zero too nobody wearing black or black suits to be specific, further showing the separation/significance of the black suit being solely for the secret society. In the slide showcasing the color white, the director gives a sense of purity in characters wearing that color, associated with the setting. 

      For this exercise, I learned that monotone colors play just as much of a role as more vibrant pigments. Black and white is used in films to adhere a more atmospheric ambience towards the film, which may provide contrasts in view of the world from the audiences perspective. While filming, using such neutral colors may help the production era to think more about the elements of lighting, and framing compositions- which inevitably, I will be doing during the production of my movie! My partner Su-Young and I both shared the responsibility of completing both shades, including finding the film and prompting our ideas onto the document. We were able to create these media charts on google slides as a subset for a power point as translating the report into a pdf. Up above, is the final result of this segment of the Introduction to color in film!