They appear to occur when Julie experiences a breakthrough in her recovery or at a significant turning point in the plot, for example when she meets her husband’s pregnant mistress and decides to give her family home to her. She concentrates on it in order to be able to discard other things.”Īt four key moments in the film, Kieslowski includes moments of a fade out and a fade in back to the scene. She’s not interested in anything at all- just the sugar. “Quite simply, we are trying to show how the heroine perceives the world…We show a close-up of a sugar cube soaking up coffee to show she is not interested in anything outside…in other people, their business, in the man who loves her and has found her after a long search. Kieslowski expanded on this in a master class saying, It may seem insignificant, but Kieslowski’s decision to focus on this moment infers how Julie has begun to take notice of the mundane in exchange for the more pressing matters of her life such as her burgeoning grief for the loss of her family. In one particular, seemingly stand-alone scene, Julie sits in a cafe and the camera shoots a tight close-up of a sugar cube absorbing coffee from her cup. Julie’s struggle for freedom from her grief and former life is the main strand of plot. The title also prepares the viewer to look out for the colour, which heightens its effect. The use of the colour in, for example, a blue chandelier or a blue-lit swimming pool, allows the director to permeate the colour’s meaning in the film, blue being a colour that connotes great sadness as well as liberty. As expected from the title, the colour blue features predominantly – a significant use of mise-en-scene throughout the piece. It is atmospheric, multi-layered and more meaningful with every viewing. It is a film that is rich in textures, which is fairly typical of French cinema. Consumed with grief she destroys the musical sheets on which he was working.
At the time of his death, her husband, a famous and respected composer, was in the middle of a new musical composition written for a newly united Europe to celebrate the end of the Cold War. After suffering such a terrible trauma, she begins to devote the rest of her life trying to completely erase her past from her memory: from moving to Paris, to selling all the furniture and belongings that inhabited her former life with her family. The plot is set in Paris, and centres on Julie’s struggle to recover from a horrific accident she was involved in that resulted in the death of her husband and a beloved young daughter. This article will begin to analyse the film in greater detail, particularly focusing in on its successes. ‘Three Colours: Blue’ is perhaps the most well-known of the three films and both boosted the popularity of French New Wave cinema, the career of Juliette Binoche and the work of Krzysztof Kieslowski outside of Europe. The collected: ‘Three Colours: Blue’, ‘Three Colours: White’ and ‘Three Colours: Red are all said to represent the three colours of the French flag and the ideals they represent: ‘liberty’ (blue), ‘equality’ (white), and ‘friendship’ (red). Our video on The Boys shows how expressive production design can be a superpower.‘Three Colours: Blue’ is the first film in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s celebrated ‘Three Colours Trilogy’ produced in 1993 and starring Juliette Binoche in the role of ‘Julie’. Let’s look at a few examples of how color in costuming/hair and makeup can help express the physical appearance of characters. The filmmakers behind Joker, for example, clearly put a lot into Arthur's costume design. But when a filmmaker or designer decides to give their character a bold appearance, it can have a strong effect on the story. More often than not, characters are made out to appear as one of the pack. Not every character expresses themself in a bold fashion. There are three ways to express the physical appearance of characters: with what they wear, how they style/color their hair and how they apply their makeup.
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Movie Color Schemes Color in costumes, hair, and makeup
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Next, let’s look at some examples of how to use color with costumes, hair and makeup. non-color conflict - results in visual symbolic depth. Ultimately, this color conflict - or color vs.
And perhaps more importantly, it juxtaposes white with very specific pops of green. We’ve touched on how different colors can have different tonal effects, but what is the tonal effect of the absence of color? Well, it’s mysterious that’s for sure. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick uses the monolith to stress the absence of color.
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