Week 4
COLOUR
MOOD AND EMOTION
WEEK 4 PROJECT
Colour expresses emotion, mood & atmosphere
Create a single colour image - naturalistic or designed
Exterior or interior scene - use a camera or phone
What is the mood and emotion you are trying to create?
What colours will you choose to work with?
What do you want your audience to feel?
Where do you want the audience to look?
Use colour to explore depth within the frame
Reference previous weekly projects
Reference artists: Patrick Caulfield. Josef Albers. Picasso. Matisse
Photographers: Dorothy Bohm - Saul Leiter - Eliot Porter
Angela Fisher - Martin Parr - Ralph Gibson
Cinematographer: Laurence Sher - Colour
Colour adds visual & emotional dimensions
A small amount of intense colour can make or unbalance a composition.
Image making becomes more complex