Using Colour To Tell A Story In Film

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  • Опубліковано 31 гру 2024

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  • @romanpul
    @romanpul 2 роки тому +524

    First rule of Hollywood color theory: As soon as you cross the Mexican border an intense warming filter has to be applied

    • @Isaac_Rogers
      @Isaac_Rogers Рік тому +17

      especially in breaking bad

    • @lukepeter8513
      @lukepeter8513 Рік тому +4

      @@Isaac_Rogerslol

    • @DiamondWoodStudios
      @DiamondWoodStudios Рік тому +4

      Also the Indian border

    • @JudiChristopher
      @JudiChristopher 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Isaac_Rogers
      That is NEW Mexico... not Mexico ...
      Here in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA is where "Breaking Bad" was Filmed...

    • @ScoutRealtors
      @ScoutRealtors 7 місяців тому +1

      😂😂😂

  • @TheNegative
    @TheNegative 2 роки тому +66

    Joker is another great example of the color contrast and separation. I really like what Wally Pfister did with the colors and lighting in that film.

    • @Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle
      @Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle 2 роки тому +2

      There is a good Vanity Fair film on youtube with Lawrence Sher where he discusses the colour used in Joker if you'd like to look for it.

  • @zacharyantle7940
    @zacharyantle7940 2 роки тому +174

    I think a vid on low budget methods for lighting would be a great topic, like can you use regular house lights as a film lights if that’s all you have? DIY rigs etc. also the discord server misses you ;)

    • @tatehildyard5332
      @tatehildyard5332 2 роки тому +6

      LED wall strips are also a handy resource to go a little out the box with since they’re already so cheap and commonplace

    • @SkeletonCreeper03
      @SkeletonCreeper03 2 роки тому +4

      the problem with regular house lights is that it tends to flicker in camera, and it usually has a low CRI value (especially cheap LED strips)

    • @m.i.andersen8167
      @m.i.andersen8167 2 роки тому +5

      Old tungsten light is superior to LED and is not as expensive as most LED lights. They have wider color gamut and flickering is rarely an issue. I recently bought quite a few 100 Watt bulbs (Eq. 13-15 Watt real live LED) for 1 € / piece. If you use the same type of bulb, there are no problems with color temperature. The only downsize is heat and power consumption, turn them off when not shooting.

    • @IDuBStepSZ
      @IDuBStepSZ Рік тому

      @@SkeletonCreeper03 you can get led strips with a very good CRI, a Guy made a video for a DIY lighting setup.
      DIY perks was the channel.

  • @robertobuatti7226
    @robertobuatti7226 2 роки тому +77

    I love the chiaroscuro look to Apocalypse Now where Brando's face is lit against a dark background which really show's how his character has lost his mind.

    • @AlexanderHernandez-sb7lq
      @AlexanderHernandez-sb7lq 2 роки тому

      The cinematography looks fantastic but I can't bring my self to watch a show that mainly has teen girls as an audience.

    • @AlexThe1Menace
      @AlexThe1Menace 2 роки тому +7

      @@AlexanderHernandez-sb7lq They're talking about Apocalypse Now, not Euphoria lol. Also, that sounds like a really dumb reason not to watch something.

    • @AlexanderHernandez-sb7lq
      @AlexanderHernandez-sb7lq 2 роки тому

      @@AlexThe1Menace than why not instead have apocalypse now as the thumbnail, because the thumbnail of a hit show will get more views wich is smart. I'll probably watch this show at some point, maybe. What I do see is videos that people calling the shows photography innovative but the shots I've seen are beautiful but nothing new in terms of composition, lighting or movement.

    • @AlexThe1Menace
      @AlexThe1Menace 2 роки тому +7

      @@AlexanderHernandez-sb7lq you were literally replying to a comment talking about Apocalypse Now though

    • @thiagoandrade6933
      @thiagoandrade6933 2 роки тому +1

      @@AlexanderHernandez-sb7lq Not everything needs to be new, but it needs to be well used and that's what Euphoria has been doing for the last two seasons (and two extra episodes). Yesterday I was wondering that this show is capable of offering some artistic creation to an audience that is not familiar to it and that's great. Maybe someday, these people will be watching Wong Kar Wai or Francis Ford Coppola and they may recognize the influences that shaped their favorite show, but before that they need to start somewhere. And yes, Euphoria is a great start.

  • @fedorbrockmann1698
    @fedorbrockmann1698 2 роки тому +374

    No matter what you think about the story, Euphoria has some of the best and most creative cinematography in TV history. Great video as always

    • @iamamith_k
      @iamamith_k 2 роки тому +5

      That's another level !!!

    • @benjiusofficial
      @benjiusofficial 2 роки тому

      *cautious weeb noises*

    • @theowlfromduolingo7982
      @theowlfromduolingo7982 2 роки тому +1

      Yes?

    • @wahyuramadhan1161
      @wahyuramadhan1161 2 роки тому

      Agree!

    • @MyMomDrank
      @MyMomDrank 2 роки тому +12

      Euphoria is easily the best produced show in years. Not just visuals, but sound and characters too. Even if you don’t like the story and/or you hate the characters, they all have depth and motivation. The soundtrack is dynamic and works with the visuals to really turn it from just a show into true expressionism.

  • @chriskingcreative
    @chriskingcreative 2 роки тому +19

    Just wanted to say that I really appreciate your content. It's well thought out, well edited, and very helpful. I love seeing when one of your videos pop up on my feed! Thanks!

  • @TheNegative
    @TheNegative 2 роки тому +46

    I honestly wasn’t sure how season 2 would stack up against Euphoria season one since the first season was large format but there were so many breathtaking shots in S2. Was not disappointed at all. Glad to see you include some of them here.

    • @SkeletonCreeper03
      @SkeletonCreeper03 2 роки тому +7

      they seriously took the cinematography of s2 to another level

    • @TheNegative
      @TheNegative 2 роки тому +4

      @@SkeletonCreeper03 yeah! Such a great surprise and a new source of great cinematography to look to for inspiration.

    • @SkeletonCreeper03
      @SkeletonCreeper03 2 роки тому +4

      @@TheNegative i completely agree! i strongly think euphoria’s lighting is something everyone should study

  • @bashmutumba
    @bashmutumba 2 роки тому +7

    These always come in times when I need them the most.

  • @kozykev
    @kozykev 2 роки тому +65

    Euphoria has the best cinematography that I've seen from a tv show.

    • @MountUpMedia
      @MountUpMedia 2 роки тому +2

      “Game of thrones has entered the chat”

    • @mayak6843
      @mayak6843 2 роки тому +14

      @@MountUpMedia naaah... naah really not. no. just no xD

    • @mayak6843
      @mayak6843 2 роки тому +7

      GoT only did what films have been doing before, in a good way, Euphoria introduced a whole new vision for lighting and purpose of lighting

    • @josendrado
      @josendrado 2 роки тому

      wtf

    • @alechall7082
      @alechall7082 2 роки тому

      @@mayak6843 ??

  • @venvatpictures
    @venvatpictures 2 роки тому +8

    Please do a brief video on T stops. Please.

  • @Jadesfishing
    @Jadesfishing 2 роки тому +7

    Thanks for including those Euphoria scenes and excerpt from Marcel Rev! I loved that shows cinematography.

  • @Pantheragem
    @Pantheragem 2 роки тому +5

    There's great use of warm colors in the movie 'Equilibrium'. They're sparing. The scene I'm thinking of is when John Preston pets the dog for the first time and smiles. The trunk light is warm against the stark background and illuminates Preston's face. To reinforce the warm motif, he puts his coat on the dog.

  • @romanpul
    @romanpul 2 роки тому +2

    OMG, this channel is a goldmine for cinematographic nerdome. Ver nice videos. Keep it up

  • @MoviesRemastered
    @MoviesRemastered 2 роки тому +5

    Your production value is so engaging. Thanks!

  • @razijukes9435
    @razijukes9435 2 роки тому +2

    This guy has really been dropping bangers every week!

  • @shreeshsawant9907
    @shreeshsawant9907 2 роки тому +11

    Can you do a cinematography style video on Robert Richardson?

  • @rayaxmerza
    @rayaxmerza Місяць тому

    bro that's such an underrated video. loved it thank you

  • @roberthipolito1351
    @roberthipolito1351 2 роки тому +3

    Tips on low budget lighting and color plse

  • @papi9527
    @papi9527 9 місяців тому +1

    these contents are so calming

  • @RyanAnthonyDigitalMedia
    @RyanAnthonyDigitalMedia 2 роки тому +5

    9:21 “He also described how the most important color in the film was black, particularly in the silhouetted scenes with Kurtz..” - especially cuz Brando showed up to set way overweight & they had to use shadows to hide it lol

  • @nifeisdead5815
    @nifeisdead5815 2 роки тому +2

    this was fantastic honestly! i learned so much

  • @lawagyei
    @lawagyei 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much for this video! Can you go another in depth video about colorists and choices they use while coloring and such. Thank you.

  • @aaronthecameraguy
    @aaronthecameraguy 2 роки тому +5

    Thank you for all these videos you make, as someone who didn't go to film school but works in production this channel has been an invaluable resource to me and I'm sure many others.
    I'm not sure if you've done a video about this already, but maybe consider a video going over common mistakes non film school people make on sets, I am consistently embarrassed and humbled haha. Something that I do feel is often gatekept by not going to film school, it feels impossible to make that step from videographer to camera assistant or DP when I don't get to work on feature sets.
    Thank you again, you are a massive help to my education!

  • @seBcopTer
    @seBcopTer 2 роки тому +2

    Best movie channel ever!

  • @Jonas-iz7rj
    @Jonas-iz7rj 2 роки тому +2

    I just want to say that I love your work🙂

  • @jayfolk
    @jayfolk 2 роки тому +14

    Benn thinking on this a lot recently, Id like to go into color solely on the RGB model.
    When Galileo named 7 colors he did so arbitrarily to get 7 names because its a holy number in the christian tradition, going so far as to invent the word indigo. From there the RoygbiV model goes into the world of painting and eventually photography and cinematography: red contrasts green, blue to orange, and yellow to purple.
    Those are fine to some extent, but the human eye works with red green and blue light, those are the 3 colors of the cones in your eyes, who's primaries in print would be cyan, magenta, and yellow.
    red contrasts cyan, blue to yellow, and green to magenta, and when you see it, it really pops. that color wheel should be taught the same as the light temperature spectrum, and yet I went 10+ years in art classes stuck with roy g. biv - which gets disproven by mixing magenta and yellow pigments to get red, meaning it isn't really a primary color.
    Red Blue and Yellow I think just get the strongest emotional reaction, and you can condition an audience to feel any emotion, motif, or theme: yellow is fear in the west but courageous in japan; so on and so forth for any color in the MRYGCB spectrum.

  • @juanmanuelsolano2336
    @juanmanuelsolano2336 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for all your content. I really enjoy it

  • @Lumithell
    @Lumithell Рік тому +1

    You work is amazing
    Thank you ❤

  • @mattsekowski
    @mattsekowski 6 місяців тому +1

    Thank you!

  • @innatemusic
    @innatemusic 2 роки тому +1

    Very nice, as usual. Thanks!

  • @tanaykumar1043
    @tanaykumar1043 2 роки тому +6

    The Batman had some pretty gritty dark colour to portray the gothic city of gotham and the environment

  • @skinnersweet1263
    @skinnersweet1263 2 роки тому +5

    “Teenagers how think they are” is the best way of explaining that anybody made about that particular show !!! Kek

  • @alessandrovalentino3406
    @alessandrovalentino3406 2 роки тому

    Wonderful! Thank you!

  • @urbanoasi
    @urbanoasi Рік тому

    Hi, great video! can I ask you where did you find the interviews of Vittorio Storaro? Is there an interview available online? Thank you 🤝

  • @LOTUSARTSTUDIO-gx8yf
    @LOTUSARTSTUDIO-gx8yf 2 роки тому

    Beautiful, this video is like magic for me 👌😇

  • @iforgotthenamemate
    @iforgotthenamemate 2 роки тому +2

    The Marvels Defenders are perfect example where a character is aligned with certain color.

  • @BrennanJ96
    @BrennanJ96 2 роки тому

    Love the vids!

  • @bdkurt
    @bdkurt 2 роки тому +1

    What is the film at 4:04? Would like to know

  • @vittorbadboy
    @vittorbadboy 2 роки тому

    How interesting 👏🏻

  • @tsayr
    @tsayr 2 роки тому

    what's the film called at 4:26? looks familiar but cant quite remember

  • @deskreanimation
    @deskreanimation 8 місяців тому

    good info

  • @thirumaalvasumana1727
    @thirumaalvasumana1727 2 роки тому

    What's the film shown at 7.46?

  • @Dir_anbu
    @Dir_anbu 8 місяців тому

    2:53

  • @ljdobles8104
    @ljdobles8104 2 роки тому

    Excelente. Gracias

  • @JudiChristopher
    @JudiChristopher 8 місяців тому +1

    1:20
    IS WRONG...
    Green is NOT a Primary Color (Yellow + Blue = Green)
    Primary Colors are:
    Red... Blue... Yellow

  • @kkfaerber
    @kkfaerber 2 роки тому +6

    As good as it looks etc. I’ll be glad when people finally get over Euphoria tbh. It will be nice when we can acknowledge that other things exist again.

  • @sugamotokiwa3685
    @sugamotokiwa3685 2 роки тому +1

    What is the film at 1:45 ? Would like to know😃

    • @ruben_3018
      @ruben_3018 2 роки тому +1

      That's the tv show Euphoria

  • @1001Hobbies
    @1001Hobbies 2 роки тому +2

    At 1:19 you talk about "PRIMARY COLORS" and show blue, red, and green. Green is not a primary color. You are missing yellow. Green is a combination of yellow and blue.

    • @JudiChristopher
      @JudiChristopher 8 місяців тому +1

      EXACTLY>... Holy Moly... You are Right!!!

    • @1001Hobbies
      @1001Hobbies 8 місяців тому +1

      @@JudiChristopher - Sometimes being a nerd makes one unpopular. That's ok though. ;)

  • @mahanth2045
    @mahanth2045 2 роки тому

    hey can anyone say please 0:53 movie is plssssssssssssssssss?????

  • @bobbydrake8965
    @bobbydrake8965 8 місяців тому

    i wonder what would've happened if Vittorio Storraro DP'd Euphoria

  • @skinnersweet1263
    @skinnersweet1263 2 роки тому

    Getting the lab to flush the color saturations within the single frame is what the genius comes up with !?!?!? That is what the dammed about the film stock ! Thanx god I live in the era where everything is possible beyond the keyboard. Kek

  • @jjandorliadul
    @jjandorliadul 2 роки тому

    Blue means freedom?

  • @LycanVisuals
    @LycanVisuals 2 роки тому +2

    Happy final Euphoria day.

  • @satish8889
    @satish8889 2 роки тому

    Great

  • @stinkystealthysloth
    @stinkystealthysloth 2 роки тому +6

    There are plenty of introductory colour theory videos, we need "in-depth" colour theory.

  • @NikkiVasser
    @NikkiVasser 11 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @storywala88
    @storywala88 2 роки тому

    💯

  • @jackofblades6736
    @jackofblades6736 2 роки тому

    I thought 5500k is on the warm side. Cinema film opposite from photography?

    • @Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle
      @Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle 2 роки тому

      5500K is the theoretical temperature of the sun at noon on a clear day. If anything, it's on the cool side (emotionally). In still photography it is the unmodified temperature of a decent flash system operating at full power. I actually use 5500K as the default on my Nikon. There is often some confusion over the way white balance works in camera. As you move the camera to a higher K value the image warms up but the value you enter on the camera is the temperature of the light you are compensating for so 5500K set on the camera will warm the image when compared to 3200K when obviously 3200K is the warmer (again emotionally) value.

  • @guguigugu
    @guguigugu 2 роки тому

    you can use any color but everyone uses blue and yellow exclusively and its so overused

  • @DonReichSdeDios
    @DonReichSdeDios 9 місяців тому

    ? some .. okay

    • @ankitaaarya
      @ankitaaarya 7 місяців тому

      What the fuck do you mean

  • @neamraven
    @neamraven 2 роки тому

    Color theory is the bane of good looking images. At least the way it's used. Everything ends up looking the same because people start treating it as if it's science. When everything is teal and orange, color theory has failed.

  • @petersolomon5227
    @petersolomon5227 Рік тому

    I disagree with the almost evangelical approach to orange and teal colour grading; whether it is employed in broadcast and streamed series or film screened in cinemas. This is an over mannered, over used colour trope that far from integrating film, and carrying a viewer’s attention along with the story, can look artificial, arbitrary and imposed.