20.) Looking into a Kaleidoscope- Color in my project

Helloo! Welcome back or welcome to my blog! In this post, we are taking a deeper look into the use of color in my project.

As I have prefaced, my film showcases the versatility in contrasting times of day (day and night). I plan to highlight the way certain times can mean different things. Typically, the daytime represents activity, awareness, clarity, and positivity. It is also associated with goodness, purity, and enlightenment. For most people, the daytime is where you're supposed to get everything done! The nighttime often symbolizes unconscious or hidden aspects of life, darkness, somber, fear, and mystery. In fact, I have heard the saying, "Nothing good happens at night". Despite these stereotypes, I'm choosing to flip-flop these connotations. I showcase the night as a more free, thrilling, and joyous time. In contrast, the day will feel more harsh, overwhelming, and blinding. This portrayal of the day does still upkeep the representation of clarity and awareness, but not in a positive way.

Given these points, how will I tie in the aspect of color into all of this? For the night scenes, I heavily incorporate the use of lights with purple, indigo, scarlet, and orange hues to emphasize the adventurous, carefree night vibe. Because I am not using much additional equipment, the lights of the night is my sun!

 Lighting from streetlights, stoplights, and buildings will illuminate my scenes. I know that because it will be dark out, there's no guarantee the colors will turn out the way I want, so I also plan to incorporate filters and exposure adjustments to saturate the colors to my liking.

 As for the daytime, I aim for it to represent harshness, bluntness, and the realization of reality/troubles coming to the light. In scenes during the day. I want the exposure to be bright, but the saturation and vibrance to be low to emphasize the stark difference of the past(night) and present(day). Although my equipment is limited, I do have a handheld ring light with bright, cold color setting in which I plan to use to really brighten the scenes. When it comes to editing, figuring out the exposure will be my best bet at ensuring the harshness of the light is emphasized.