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My partner, Arantza, and I haven't finalized our idea for our opening yet, but we know for sure that we want it to take place in the summer time in the early 2000s. So while the plot isn't developed, the color scheme basically is.
We want our film/opening to have warm tones and hues, so oranges, and for all the colors to be saturated and brighter. This adds to the sense of summer, a supposedly bright part of the year, plays on the feeling of nostalgia, and overall brings a lot of comfort warmth to audiences.
While some might not realize it, in film, oranges evoke feelings of warmth, happiness, youth, and creativity. This opening is meant to demonstrate this as our protagonist will likely be enjoying their last summer before going off to college. We want to illustrate the joyful feeling older audiences once felt when they were younger in the 2000s and enjoying carefree summers, nostalgia playing a huge role in this; the bittersweetness of the last summer before college, a bridge between the end of childhood and the rest of life, and overall make people feel seen. Arantza and I are both at this point in life, where we have already begun, or will soon begin to cross this bridge between childhood and "adulthood." And it sounds very serious, but a point of the film is to make sure that those in this stage keep their youth in tact, and don't allow anyone to tell them otherwise... something else that can be conveyed through the use of orange hues.
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Manipulating saturation changes how bright or dull colors seem on the screen. To be honest, we have not defined how we want the saturation in our film to be, but both bright and dull colors could definitely help set our intended tone.
Pairing low lighting and warm tones with low saturation, brings a feeling of calmness and sort of remind the audience that everything will be alright. This is very necessary in our film as we want young adults to feel heard and remember that they're not alone, what they're going through is very normal and happens to lots of people, so they will make it out of it okay. Again with the nostalgia, low saturation creates emotions of sadness and, with the orange, just bittersweet longing and nostalgia.
However, high saturation could also work in our favor, with vibrant colors being in charge of evoking certain emotions. While bright colors tend to clash with soft background tones, typically being used for action and urgency, very different from our film, it could still play with the nostalgia I keep talking about. There is a belief that when we were younger, the world felt brighter, the sun shone brighter, colors were more vibrant, and as we grew up, the world slowly got darker, whether it be because modernism caused everything to literally be darker, or it is simply us growing up, maturing, and reality hitting us. Either way, this seems to be a view that everyone agrees on. And not only that, but summer is characterized by colorful hues, eliciting joy. So using high saturation wouldn't be as bad as we think it might be, it'll help play on the nostalgia and bring that summer feeling we really want.
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