Recipe:
Title – catching colours(emotion) on white
This time I will keep the background as simple as possible, if white works well together with the white clothes, I might choose all white background. Post production for this experiment, and two version of editing will be done at the end. First version will be to create a similar effect as the cellophane paper but not as deep as it, and second version will be a refine version after receiving feedback from friends.
Ingredients:
- All white background
- All white clothes
- A model
- Something to shoot with (DSLR)
Method:
- Find an all white background for shooting
- Model stand in front of the wall or background
- Ask the model to repeat the same movement over for several of times
- Edit first version
- Post production, add different filters to each clip, filters need to be in different colour but not as deep as the cellophane paper
- Show others and get feedback from them: what emotion does each filter create?
- edit the second version of this experiment
Reflection:
While the process of this experiment, I must be very careful in choosing background because I want the white clothes to stand out from the background so I cannot use pure white background, but I also want the background to be in one colour or at least to be simple otherwise the issue from the first experiment will reoccur again. I edit two versions in this experiment, the two of them will be repeating the same movement but they are filmed in two locations. Since the start of this assignment, I am so glad that we have building 10 access because there are so many colourful places available to use. Moving from the suggestion I received from the consultation, Hannah and students in my group gave me a lot of useful suggestion for my next process, since the first and second experiments were produced with physical filters – cellophane paper, they suggested me to try post-production for this experiment. Which I thought it would be worth to try because I considered the colour of cellophane papers were a bit too heavy and thick to create emotions and let emotions be differed by the change of colours.
After I have finished editing the first version, I was lost and confused when I have watched the first version. I added filters straight onto the video which has created a similar effect to cellophane papers. Myself as the producer and audience watching this video, it has once again created different feelings to people actually viewing the subject/place with naked eyes, but the constant change of colours didn’t differ the emotion. I struggled in the edit suite for a long time thinking what I must change to edit the second version, then I showed the video to different people for a quick survey. Their answers were just the same as I expected, neither do they feel different emotion out of the first version, few of them told me that the dark colour tone enhances mysteriousness to the subject in the video, but the same emotion continued until the end of the video.
In order to improve this situation, I took one of the suggestions for the survey to not only add colours into the video only because my theme is colour, but try and manipulate the colour tone by adjusting the colour of shadowed, highlighted areas. The colors are in the sequence of green; red; blue; yellow, the first clip with green in the shaded area created contrast with the rest soft colours because the level of colour tone creates different feelings as well.
Media (Colour on White):
First edition –
2nd Edition (correct edition) –