Recipe:
Title – Manipulating emotions with colour
Firstly to photograph either an architecture or landscape without adjusting anything on the camera or filters, and then use different cellophane colour papers to photograph the location for several times.
Ingredients:
- A camera that allows me to do filming and photographing
- Different colour of cellophane papers
- rubber band to tie them on the camera lens
Methods:
- Photograph what Federation square looks like originally without anything being adjusted first
- Then capture three photographs with different colours of cellophane papers
- Film 15 seconds with each color of cellophane paper
- Totally 16 photograph: 1 original + 15 photographs with different colour paper
- Edit the video into one video clip to see the difference between the use of colours
Reflection:
The experiment result was very different to what I expected, first of all, the cellophane papers are thicker than I thought which has caused object/ location’s original color being blocked by the cellophane paper, this is not what I wanted for sure. Instead of saying it has brought emotion to either photograph or video, they seemed to be adjusted to look like an ‘old movie’, objects’ movements seemed to be played in slow motion, it was like a flashback scene from a movie rather than created any emotion. During the progression, I found it’s very hard to decide a location to photograph, as I was not sure between whether I should photograph a familiar location or I should go somewhere I am not familiar with, however, I end up choosing Federation square which is a location that sits in between. The result was I should choose a place that I am familiar with because then I know where is more suitable for colours such as somewhere with pure background??
As the result, what I will do for the next experiment is to choose a location that I am familair with, and also need to be simpler than Federation Square, because I think the reason for the first experiment to be so different from my expectation could be the background is too rich. When there are so many things going on at a place, the audience’s focus will differ from what I am trying to show. There is quite a few full coloured background in RMIT building 10, I will still use cellophane paper because I think the problem is more about the location or the background, not the colour papers. I will use match the same colour of paper with the background. Throughout the next experiment, I hope I can find out the reason that why photographs for the first experimental didn’t come out as what I expected to be. And I also want to test the change of colours will change how people view a media especially if the subject in the media is a person.
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