From the moment we come into this world colors are given distinctive definitions, sometimes to signify categorical data such as types of emergency vehicle or gender. However, often colors are used to denote emotions, yellow for happy, green for nauseous, red for angry and so forth, a study in the College Student Journal published explicitly examined this relationship in a study called “Relationship between Color and Emotion: a Study of College Students”. Filmmakers utilize in scenes to help aid in enhancing the audience's connection to the story. In the film The Piano, Jane Campion the director and Stuart Dryburgh the cinematographer, utilize colors to portray the mood of her character's without the use of dialogue, to help circumvent her muteness.
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The cool color scheme of brown, blue and gray illustrate the somberness of the film, most notably during the moments Ada is approaching and on the beach. Drybrough utilizes the dark color scheme to, give the audience the sense of hopeless despair that Ada felt as she walked ashore to her new home and husband. Finally, losing all her rights as a woman through this one act, because she is married, her husband legally owns her and everything else she does. Conversely, during the final scenes of the movie, around the two-hundred and eight minute mark, the sky and ocean are clear and a light blue. The lightness of the hue evoke feelings of jovial bliss, for Ada a new freedom. Through altering the shade of the coloring, Drybrough can elicit depression or …show more content…
In the scene of the native and colonist trade, the native’s wore earth-tone colors, becoming a part of the forest, while Mr. Stewart is completely cooled in his tie. Secondly, the different depictions of the ocean in the beginning scenes as well as in the final scenes, offer two completely different hues and feelings. Lastly, utilizing the forest as a method of conveying character relationship, by altering the coloring of the forest, the film offers the audience an inside look at the character’s perception of the story-line. The stark contrast between the two minutes in the film is the reaction of Flora to Mr. Stewart’s aggressive nature. Hues can be utilized to form any scene or even replace scene’s if the pallet is perfect, the choice and alteration of the hues can induce a plethora of emotions from the
The cool color scheme of brown, blue and gray illustrate the somberness of the film, most notably during the moments Ada is approaching and on the beach. Drybrough utilizes the dark color scheme to, give the audience the sense of hopeless despair that Ada felt as she walked ashore to her new home and husband. Finally, losing all her rights as a woman through this one act, because she is married, her husband legally owns her and everything else she does. Conversely, during the final scenes of the movie, around the two-hundred and eight minute mark, the sky and ocean are clear and a light blue. The lightness of the hue evoke feelings of jovial bliss, for Ada a new freedom. Through altering the shade of the coloring, Drybrough can elicit depression or …show more content…
In the scene of the native and colonist trade, the native’s wore earth-tone colors, becoming a part of the forest, while Mr. Stewart is completely cooled in his tie. Secondly, the different depictions of the ocean in the beginning scenes as well as in the final scenes, offer two completely different hues and feelings. Lastly, utilizing the forest as a method of conveying character relationship, by altering the coloring of the forest, the film offers the audience an inside look at the character’s perception of the story-line. The stark contrast between the two minutes in the film is the reaction of Flora to Mr. Stewart’s aggressive nature. Hues can be utilized to form any scene or even replace scene’s if the pallet is perfect, the choice and alteration of the hues can induce a plethora of emotions from the