Cultural Reference page- Colour & Films

Colour is fantastic and strange, colour is everything. It can tell us so much but at the same time the way colours melt and grow into one another can be seen as strange. As well as this, it's weird how we can judge so much just by looking at a colour (this is a very strong point in racism, but that's not what I'm going to be looking into)
Colour is an important part of everyday life, everywhere you look there's colour of some sort. People working in industry use it to their example, whether it be in film making, television, or a different art form, it has the ability to alter the mood of something entirely.
Colour is a very useful thing in posters and things for films, it can often tell us what to expect, the genre, content and feeling of the film can be judged right off the bat, it may not always be accurate but if used correctly it's a very effective tool.
In a lot of older action films, we can see a very fiery palette. This can reflect the heat of the fighting or often the settings of the film as they're often set in the hot south or areas of Africa and Asia.

 Here are two examples where yellows, reds and oranges have been used effectively and convey something about what their respective films are going to be like. They also use the merging of multiple images in a lot of these film covers which nowadays is a little tacky if not done correctly.

 I think that these two images show similarities to the type seen in old action film posters, especially because of the colours and double exposure.

Compared to action films, drama and psychological films tend to have a much colder palate, blues and greens as well as a sometimes faded feel to them. This gives a very bare feeling, very scientific, like deep inside someone's head.

 My version was done with brown eyes and bad lighting, I'd like to try re-recreating the Requiem For A Dream poster with a blue iris.