Colour palette Cinematography:

Film-makers use a specific colour palette on the screen to help harness their storytelling capabilities. Different colours draw out different types of emotions from the audience. For example, joy and happiness could be represented by the colour yellow, and anger and rage by the colour red. The colour palette of a film signals to the audience the film-maker’s intent to create an atmosphere or to send a message or to get an emotional response. This is achieved by matching costume, make-up, sets and lighting under one colour palette. READING A film still is a picture taken from a film. Below are three film stills from Corpse Bride, Trolls and Marie Antoinette. Corpse Bride is a stop-motion animated film about Victor, a groom who has to choose between two brides, one being a corpse who drags him to the underworld while his living bride is courted by another man. Trolls is a computer-animated children’s film about Poppy, a joy-loving tiny troll on a quest to save her friends. Marie Antoinette is a historical drama about Queen Marie Antoinette in the lead up to the French revolution. Each of these films has a very distinctive mise-en-scène and colour palette. Look at the film stills and complete the task in your activity book (see page 77). ACT IVITY ©The Educational Company of Ireland