The camera that I have been using makes the colours of the footage really vibrant. As an artistic person I love seeing the bright colours that are produced as a result but unfortunately this doesn't always fit with the mood I am trying to convey. Since I am now producing a modern day silent film I am having to find ways of conveying the mood through alternative roots to narration and dialogue. The expressions on the actors faces is obviously a big clue but things such as what music you use and the colours of the footage also play a big part in the mood conveyed.
When I filmed the opening scene (Common room scene 1) it was a sunny day and so the colours came out really bright but the mood I want to convey at this point is of loneliness and isolation. To solve the juxtaposition this created, between the action going on and the colours used, I used colour correction to bring the brighter tones down giving the scene a more depressive feel.
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| colour of original footage |
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| colour after I altered the saturation |
Filters
As I mentioned in a previous post one of the conventions of silent films I want to replicate in my film is the use of black and white. When silent films first came out they were completely black and white because colour technology hadn't yet been invented but I don't intend to use this technique throughout my film. My reasons for this are that it would defy what I said above about dulling the tones to create a sad mood and enhancing them for a happy one but also because I like the idea of mixing old and new together. This same mixture of old and new was used in the short silent film 'Colour Shift.'
Colour Shift
Here the creator has set out to make a silent film and has probably looked at the conventions like I have. However, they have played on the conventions modernising it by indicating the shift from an original black and white silent film to a modern day coloured silent film by implying that the characters can also see the change. I won't be using the black and white filter and colour in this way as my characters won't be affected by the change in colour but the idea behind using both to modernise a piece whilst still hinting towards it roots is my incentive for keeping with this convention.
I am going to use the black and white filter in the climactic scene of the film. This is 'Park Scene 2' where the two friends meet so that Chloe can explain her actions to Lauren. Using complete black and white as opposed to just really dull colours here gives this scene more emotional effect which is why I have chosen this location for this effect.
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| original colour of footage |
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| black and white filter |
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