The Use Of Color In Baby Driver By Edgar Wright

How many ways can a person describe color? If someone were to ask you that, what you would say? How can you describe what turquoise or maroon feels like? There are many ways you can answer this. Colors can change the way people visually perceive an the environments that surround them. After harnessing the power of sound in our film, film editors then find ways to apply colors on film. Innovators like Thomas Edison and George Mellie would painstakingly paint on film to give them color and to make them all the more wondrous. Color has been used to set the mood the atmosphere, to bring life to a the world around the character's, but those are just a few uses that colors can be used. The use of colors in films has been the best way for visual storytelling, but use of it The use of colors was initially used to show the dream like qualities of cinema. Film was the pinnacle of escapism and color were to enhance our experience, to show the difference between …show more content…
“Baby Driver” by Edgar Wright was a film made this and was awarded for the music of the film, not the color. The color used in “Baby Driver” traits about the characters and foreshadows the certain points in the story. The way Wright used color was through the costume design, making the protagonist wearing black and white shows the darkness of the criminal underworld and white of his daily life and romance. It also shows the way the protagonist views the world, only in black and white. Wright mainly used the colors as a way of metaphoric storytelling, but it was never acknowledged for it. The use of colors today may be used to enhance the film, but rarely used to tell a story. Movies shouldn’t be a way to show the great use of technology or to use as a marketing tool. Movies should be a way for a filmmaker to send a message to the audience about society, people, or an