This is what I love to do on my time off. Watching how color lives on film. In films, color and lighting (one of the same), fool us into thinking we are watching a dimesional space that exists on a flat screen. All day long I am creating colorful environments, so I thought--what better way to get personal with color than to watch how color tells personal stories?
I look past the close-ups, and review movies with color, as the essential supporting role to a good story. Like falling in love, great color and a great story, make magic. Take another look at 13 going on 30!
Having a fantasy is like taking an airplane trip in our heads. We choose to buy a ticket, wait at the gate till the vision of the events become clear, and soon we are soaring to an imaginary place, a place where we can script, direct, and star in our own magical dramas. Jenna Rink, in 13 Going On 30, boards a fantasy and takes us along for the ride, into a future where her little-girl wishes come true. She wishes to be thirty, flirty, and thriving.
From an amazing and colorful shoe and thong collection to her creative and colorful job as a fashion editor for the magazine POISE, this story takes off aboard a fantasy kiss and a fantasy wish.
Color plays a supporting role as Jenna transforms from a polka-dotted, striped, colorful, tortured, hormonal, wannabe-popular teen to a polka-dotted, striped, colorful, popular grown-up. In this adult-candy-shop world, Jenna lives her new grown-up life accompanied by all the familiar hues of her teen years.
The 1980s “I want my MTV” color palette is perfectly delivered to us, first as a time capsule and then as part of a flawless and contemporary city palette, proving once again that great color relationships are eternal, everlasting, and certainly just as beautiful as the day we first saw them. Please check out Jenna’s apartment, closet, wardrobe, shopping spree, and the ultimate pink fantasy house. Gray, pink, teal, fuchsia, mint, and peach are all there waiting for you to see them again.
1 comment:
I love how art directors use color to manipulate a movie goer's emotions... Whether providing nostalgia in the set like in "13 going on 30," or establishing our mood with simple color editing such as the sepia tint in "O Brother, Where Art Thou," or the black and white filmed "Good Night and Good Luck." the art director is in complete control of our emotions. I sure hope they never use their power for evil.
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