Use of colour

This is an exercise of viewing that intends to understand how the colour is used in films. To achieve the goal I was supposed to watch and observe films that use the colour in a particular way. There was some instructions to follow that helped me as I was going along this. To be precise, I was supposed to look for the examples below:

1. Change of atmospheres between scenes.

2. Emotion of a character.

3. General mood or atmosphere of the film as a whole. 

4. A range of feelings, emotions or atmospheres such as love, fear, power and joy. 

So, having taken this into account, I have found the following frames to illustrate the four ideas. 

Firstly, I would like to comment a change between scenes that I watched in the film Her. It represents the feelings of the protagonist. He was in love a few years ago and happily married but currently, he is getting divorced. And we can see the contrast between the two stages of his life when he thinks about them. From white to black. Furthermore, these two work well as examples of how love and joy are shot. The low intensity of the whites avoids a cold sense. In fact, it gets the opposite, warming the whole scene. On the other hand, when the guy is stressed, dark tones are predominant.

Keeping working with this movie, its photography is so colourful that it was pretty easy to get more wanted samples. Basically, the colour is used all the time to show the audiencie the mood of the main character. When he is in the mood, he appears within a setting painted by a wide range of colours. At the same time, when he is feeling blue, it is all in the opposite coloration as it was mentioned before. The chosen frames show power. The guy looks confident and, as matter of fact, he really is. And we know this thanks to his red shirt. 

Finally, I would like to present four frames from Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. This film has a very particular atmosphere. I think that this is because the narrative is so dark and reads about a prisoner who is regarded as dangerous. Obviously, we barely see colours in the film. What is more, when there's something that should be on the screen lively because of their colour, they make them less vivid. This can be clearly seen in the bottom left where there is a girl wearing a pink hoodie. Pink is usually a cheering colour. But not here.