Colour Pallet

Reading Patti Bellantoni's book made me think about films I had seen that I thought had an interesting Colour Pallet

Film: Her

Director: Spike Jonze
Synopsis: Set in the future a writer forms an unlikely relationship with his operating system.  

I thought the colour Pallet in Her was incredible, the soft pastel colours help create a beautiful futuristic environment for the story to develop. The film has two conflicting themes/emotions love and loneliness, the colour pallet helps us distinguish between the two. Warm colours when Theodor is happy and cold blues when he’s not. 

Film: Drive 

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn 
Synopsis: A hollywood stunt man gets in trouble when he helped his nigbour 

The colour pallet in Drive, the dark blues, reflects the dark and gritty environment that the film is set.  Action, thriller and dark comedies films seem to have this blue colder colour Pallet while comedies, children and rom coms seem considerable warmer.

Film: 500 Days of Summer  

Director: Marc Webb
Synopsis: A former architecture falls in love with a work colleague who doesn't believe in true love.

As we see Tom and Summer go through they relationship form the first awkward encounters, to the honeymoon phase to the inevitable breakup, the colour pallet changes to considerable to reflect the emotion of the two characters.  Warmer colours when everything is going well, blue colour platte when things aren’t.