If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling (Paperback)

Description:

If it's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die is a must-read book for all film students, film professionals, and others interested in filmmaking. This enlightening book guides filmmakers toward making the right color selections for their films, and helps movie buffs understand why they feel the way they do while watching movies that incorporate certain colors.

Guided by her twenty-five years of research on the effects of color on behavior, Bellantoni has grouped more than 60 films under the spheres of influence of six major colors, each of which triggers very specific emotional states. For example, the author explains that films with a dominant red influence have themes and characters that are powerful, lusty, defiant, anxious, angry, or romantic and discusses specific films as examples. She explores each film, describing how, why, and where a color influences emotions, both in the characters on screen and in the audience. Each color section begins with an illustrated Home Page that includes examples, anecdotes, and tips for using or avoiding that particular color.

Conversations with the author's colleagues-- including award-winning production designers Henry Bumstead (Unforgiven) and Wynn Thomas (Malcolm X) and renowned cinematographers Roger Deakins (The Shawshank Redemption) and Edward Lachman (Far From Heaven)--reveal how color is often used to communicate what is not said.

Bellantoni uses her research and experience to demonstrate how powerful color can be and to increase readers awareness of the colors around us and how they make us feel, act, and react.

Learn how your choice of color can influence an audience's moods, attitudes, reactions, and interpretations of your movie's plot

See your favorite films in a new light as the author points out important uses of color, both instinctive and intentional

Learn how to make good color choices, in your film and in your world.

Table of Contents:

Part I: RED: The Caffeinated Color
Chapter 1: Powerful, Lusty, and Defiant
Chapter 2: Anxious, Angry, and Romantic

Part II: YELLOW: The Contrary Color
Chapter 3: Exuberant, Obsessive, and Daring
Chapter 4: Innocent, Cautionary, and Idyllic

Part III: BLUE: The Detached Color
Chapter 5: Powerless, Cerebral, and Warm
Chapter 6: Melancholy, Cold, and Passive

Part IV: ORANGE: The Sweet and Sour Color
Chapter 7: Warm, Naive, and Romantic
Chapter 8: Exotic, Toxic, and Natural Earth

Part V: GREEN: The Split Personality Color
Chapter 9: Healthy, Ambivalent, and Vital
10: Poisonous, Ominous, and Corrupt

Part VI: PURPLE: The Beyond-the-Body Color
Chapter 11: Asexual, Illusory, and Fantastic
Chapter 12: Mystical, Ominous, and Ethereal

描述：

《如果是紫色，就會有人死亡》是一本所有電影學生、電影專業人士和對電影製作感興趣的人必讀的書籍。這本啟發性的書籍引導電影製片人選擇適合他們電影的正確顏色，並幫助電影愛好者理解為什麼在觀看融入特定顏色的電影時會有特定的情感。

在她對顏色對行為影響的二十五年研究的指導下，Bellantoni將60多部電影分為六個主要顏色的影響範疇，每個顏色觸發非常具體的情感狀態。例如，作者解釋了具有主導紅色影響的電影具有強大、熱情、挑戰、焦慮、憤怒或浪漫的主題和角色，並討論了具體的電影作為例子。她探索了每部電影，描述了顏色在屏幕上的角色和觀眾中如何影響情感的方式、原因和位置。每個顏色部分都以一個插圖的主頁開始，其中包括例子、軼事和使用或避免該特定顏色的提示。

與作者的同事進行的對話，包括屢獲殊榮的美術指導Henry Bumstead（《不可饒恕》）和Wynn Thomas（《馬爾科姆X》）以及著名攝影師Roger Deakins（《刺激1995》）和Edward Lachman（《遠離天堂》），揭示了顏色通常用於傳達未說出的內容。

Bellantoni利用她的研究和經驗來展示顏色的強大，並增加讀者對我們周圍的顏色以及它們如何使我們感到、行動和反應的意識。

了解您選擇的顏色如何影響觀眾的情緒、態度、反應和對電影情節的解讀

當作者指出顏色的重要用途時，以新的角度看待您最喜愛的電影，無論是本能的還是有意的

學習如何在您的電影和您的世界中做出良好的顏色選擇。

目錄：

第一部分：紅色：充滿活力的顏色
第1章：強大、熱情和挑戰
第2章：焦慮、憤怒和浪漫

第二部分：黃色：相反的顏色
第3章：熱情、執著和大膽
第4章：天真、謹慎和田園

第三部分：藍色：冷漠的顏色
第5章：無力、理性和溫暖
第6章：憂鬱、冷漠和被動

第四部分：橙色：甜酸的顏色
第7章：溫暖、天真和浪漫
第8章：異國風情、有毒和自然之地

第五部分：綠色：分裂的個性顏色
第9章：健康、矛盾和活力
第10章：有毒、不祥和腐敗

第六部分：紫色：超越肉體的顏色
第11章：無性、虛幻和奇幻
第12章：神秘、不祥和超凡脫俗