Techniques To Communicate The Tone Of A Scene In Film

When creating a scene in film, it is important to communicate the tone of the scene in order to make your audience feel a certain way about the scene. You communicate that tone by scene color, music and lighting. When editing the color of a scene, it is important to know what you want the audience to feel. By knowing what you want them to feel, you edit the color of the scene to match the tone you want. As human beings, we connect certain colors with certain things. If a gate is gold with white background, we think of heaven, if the gate is red with black background we think of hell. If a scene consists of a pale shade of every color, it gives off a very dry, dim tone. Unbroken has grey, white and pale yellow color in its scenes. This not just helps with tone of the whole film, but with particular scenes. When Louis Zamperini lifts the board of wood, the camera shot switches to behind him as the glare of the sun shines past his grey body. …show more content…
Different film scores can completely alter the mood of a scene and film makers carefully pick certain soundtracks to convey certain emotions or ideas. A soundtrack is music that is made particularly for the film. Whereas music can be taken from outside like rock songs etc. trumpets and loud instruments to make a scene feel triumphant and use thin violins and light piano to make a scene feel creepy and menacing. If you don't use music that matches with the scene, like using triumphant music when the main character is being tortured, you take your audience out of the scene. They lose focus and focus on how the music doesn't sound right. That will detach them from your story so you need music that fits your scene and provides the right tone. For example, when I made announcement videos for SFC, I would use exciting electronic music when we announced new events in order to convey the new and exciting thing was going to happen, which makes people curious as to what it could