INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES

FILM

AMELIE

Amelie was the first film I thought of when thinking about the use of colour in an interesting way. Each scene is carefully put together with one colour in mind, although many of the scenes are red or green(this being the main palette of the film) there are various scenes that stick to yellow and blue.

The red, green and gold in this film were used to depict Amelie's childish view of the world, the other colours throughout the film seem to present the other characters emotions or Amelie's situation. This could be something to think about when filming our video. 

TO DIE BY YOUR SIDE (BEGINNING) 

The beginning of this short film features a large grey cathedral lit with bright white lights against a dark blue sky, this would not only be fairly easy to re-create (the Norwich Cathedral is often lit like this in the evening) but also fit very well with the blue shots from Cromer e.g the sea or blue houses. 

The next shot is a small, dimly lit bookshop, the perfect location for the warm palette we want to create alongside the red shots from the Fitzwilliam museum and the orange lights from Elm Hill. There is a small bookshop similar to this in Norwich however we will need to ask permission for filming and check whether they are open lat enough to re-create this effect.  The best shots to re-create here would be the one looking at the man through the two bookshelves as it would be an interesting and useful shot in terms of establishing our character and also the panning shot of the books along the bookshelf, we could again incorporate colour here in the cover art on each book e.g have some blue then green and finally red. 

PIERROT LE FOU

The colours in this film are visually stunning and throughout the scenes continue to use a specific colour palette, the red, green and blue is common throughout and will hopefully be used to the same visual effect in our video.The film also uses colour to display the characters emotions or situation, the primary colours throughout present harmony however occasionally a secondary colour will appear e.g the pink of a dress etc and cause disharmony to the scene. 

 This effect is achieved both through the use of specific props and colour appropriate backgrounds but also through colour correction in the editing, this will be something that we can easily try out when editing our video. 

POSTER ART 

These two posters would be useful to use as our cover art inspiration because we would be taking various ideas from each film. The posters also have an interesting layout, the first is almost a print effect that could be good to use and prints can have the same image over and over just with a different colour- just as our video would. The second poster is laid out as a classic novel cover, this is something to take on board as it gives us an idea of all the different media that can be incorporated into our cover art. 

MUSIC VIDEOS

CELLO SONG-NICK DRAKE 

This video (although unofficial) includes shots of the artists time spent in our main location of Cambridge. Because this is an old video the camera it creates rich colours, something we need to try to create when filming our music video. James Egde's music reminded me of Nick Drake's work and so it seemed fitting to find one of the few videos produced for the artist as inspiration. 

ART

MARK ROTHKO

Mark Rothko's colour use creates means to present human emotions. The colour collection was heavily influenced by philosophy, each painting reflects different emotions using a similar colour palette within that may be entirely different from another painting. This is similar to our piece of film as, with the use of different colours, we can present different moods/atmospheres. 

The use of similar colours in each painting e.g the red,yellow and orange, will be used in our video as it will not only be easier as it is difficult to control locations exactly but also will hopefully also be effective as the colours will be heightened with the use of a rich palette.