Colour Films
Films are very often showed in colour nowadays, but this has not always been the case. There have been thousands of films made with colour in the last 70 years or so. This means that if we see a film and it is in colour, we take no notice. However, had a film been made in colour 70 years ago, it would have been an amazing sight for the audience. The first colour film ever made was Georges Melies in a film called Voyage a Travers L'Impossible in 1904. This was an immense discovery and would prove to kickstart the colour film industry. However, colour films were not made immediately after this. It took another four decades for colour films to begin being among a variety of producers. However, this does not mean that colour was not used at all.
The Wizard of Oz, made in 1939. This was using colour to truly emphasise the differences between dreams and reality. The reality is shown in black and white and the dreams are show in extreme colours. The contrast between the dullness of reality and the wonderfulness of how amazing a dream can be is very different because in her dream, Dorothy leaves her house and looks around at the extremely blue water, the very bright yellow brick road and the plants that are very bright red and green. This shows that dreams can be magical and anything you want them to be. She looks as though she enjoys the dream much more than reality.
"We Need To Talk About Kevin" is a film that has the same colours continuously throughout as a theme. The colour red is shown in every scene whether that be a red can of tomato soup, a red teddy bear or a red ball. There is also repetitiveness of the colour white. When Eva is having flashbacks, everyone is wearing a white shirt and the walls are a cream colour. However, she is not following the trend and is wearing yellow, she is the odd one out. In the present day, she wears a grey shirt and the walls are white rather than cream and everything is much more dull.
In Casino Royale, the first scene is James Bond gaining his first and second kill in the build-up to his double 0 status. There is a contrast between the killing of the first man and the second man. James Bond is much more cool, calm and collective with the second man. In the first killing, James is throwing the man all over the place and breaking sinks with him and throwing him through doors whereas with the second man, he has pre-planned the attack and we know that because he has taken the clip from the gun before the man came into his office. He talks to the man before killing him and treats him much differently, with no ruckus involved.
The Wizard of Oz, made in 1939. This was using colour to truly emphasise the differences between dreams and reality. The reality is shown in black and white and the dreams are show in extreme colours. The contrast between the dullness of reality and the wonderfulness of how amazing a dream can be is very different because in her dream, Dorothy leaves her house and looks around at the extremely blue water, the very bright yellow brick road and the plants that are very bright red and green. This shows that dreams can be magical and anything you want them to be. She looks as though she enjoys the dream much more than reality.
"We Need To Talk About Kevin" is a film that has the same colours continuously throughout as a theme. The colour red is shown in every scene whether that be a red can of tomato soup, a red teddy bear or a red ball. There is also repetitiveness of the colour white. When Eva is having flashbacks, everyone is wearing a white shirt and the walls are a cream colour. However, she is not following the trend and is wearing yellow, she is the odd one out. In the present day, she wears a grey shirt and the walls are white rather than cream and everything is much more dull.
In Casino Royale, the first scene is James Bond gaining his first and second kill in the build-up to his double 0 status. There is a contrast between the killing of the first man and the second man. James Bond is much more cool, calm and collective with the second man. In the first killing, James is throwing the man all over the place and breaking sinks with him and throwing him through doors whereas with the second man, he has pre-planned the attack and we know that because he has taken the clip from the gun before the man came into his office. He talks to the man before killing him and treats him much differently, with no ruckus involved.
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