May 2013
Beginner
400 pages
15h
English
Color
Color in Visual Storytelling
Color is one of our most important tools and not merely because we can do beautiful things with it. Far more fundamentally is its power as a communications tool. Color affects the viewer in the same way that music or dance does: it reaches people at a gut emotional level. For this reason, it can be a powerful tool in creating visual subtext. There are three aspects of color that we must understand as cinematographers:
The Nature of Light
As we recall from the chapter on exposure, light is composed of photons, which have the properties of both matter and light. Even Newton recognized that individual photons don’t ...
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