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


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Colour adds visual & emotional dimensions
A small amount of intense colour can make or unbalance a composition.
Image making becomes more complex