Colour works on the subconscious mind to create mood.
Over the years the used of colour in film has improved by a lot. The first use of colour was in films such as the film by the pioneer 'Voyage a Travers L'Impossible'. The film was hand painted frame by frame. Before this films did not have any colour and were simply in black and white. Once colour started to be used in films it was very overexaggerated for example in the film 'The Wizard of OZ.'
The next development of colour was the introduction of 'two-strip technicolor' using red and green. For example in the film 'The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)'
The technicolor system:
The first full three strip technicolour was 'Becky Sharp' (1935)
From the year 1930 to the year 1940 the colours black and white represented reality and colour would represent fantasy and spectacle such as in the film 'The Wizard of OZ(1939)' There is a difference between the real world and fantasy world which is shown from the dramatic change in colour and the
over exaggerated colours in OZ.
Colour denotation is the literal description of an idea concept or object and colour connotation is what we associate with a particular idea, concept or object. For example the colour red denotation is a particular wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum and the connotation would be anger, blood or danger etc.
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