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Blue-and-orange in movies.
2012-03-17 16:37:05
edited 2012-03-17 16:37:05 in Media
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Actually, the Mirror Mirror trailer deserves special mention because it's not like they just colored everything in oranges in post, they literally designed the entire movie in that exact way.
They're easy on the eye, oppose each other in a way that the brain finds aesthetically pleasing, and are simple to utilize (think sun and sky).
^^ They're complementary colors, so it makes things more... contrast-y, and thus in theory more visually interesting. Also, sunlight is yellow-orange-ish, and as a result shadows look vaguely bluish, so blue and orange also look more natural than other pairs of complementary colors. Or something.
^ That too.
Orange gives a feel of age. Browning paper/film, dust, etc. It has subconscious connections to sunset, which also contains a whole lot of symbolism with age and things bygone. It gets (over)used when presenting settings or stories like ancient Greece, or fairytale remakes to invoke false nostalgia. It's also why you'll see pretty much any scene in a place very meaningful to a character's childhood and playing his nostalgia for all it's worth framed in sunset.
Occasionally, you'll see a very delicate over-hue of green serve a similar purpose, like a thin layer of moss, but the effect is somewhat more muted. Typically the more powerful responses are connected to colors lower on the spectrum.
As for blue, it carries a lot of very powerful connections that have been cooked into us for most of our lives; sky, water, etc., are passive, reassuring, and familiar. It's a calming force that can make a fantastic setting seem peaceful instead of hostile.
That's what I learned in theater and storytelling classes anyway.
I really would like to see them use more colors.
Some green/yellow/turquoise and some red/purple/pink would be nice.