What do Colors Mean

Importance of Colors

Importance of Colors

1. Background

2. Lighting

3. Clothing

4. Objects = Props

White

Religious, Stability, Sterile Laboratory, Clean & Santiary, Virgin Pure, Bride = white = virgin, White Heroine

Black

Evil

Also the color of piety: nun, religious leaders, priests

Formal, can be used to make a statement

Blue

America’s favorite color, SAD, blue is night in theatre and film,

Blue Eyes - leading men and women in film

Blue Room - Highest Englih and creative scores, Business productivity increases

Blue - lapis-lazuli

Yellow

Yellow room - best math scores

Yellow birth = spring, yellow = resurrection

Yellow Devil - HELL!

Yellow Triangle - Caution! Danger!

Amber

As Golden Memory back story in “the godfather”

Orange

Funny

Green

with blue = spring/life, luck of the irish, new year underwear, venezuela, good luck, fertility

greenblue = country rube

with yellow = happy aliens or sick

(margaret hamilton - the wizard of the oz)

Pink

little girls, pink = gays (jail cells + prisons painted pink to calm inmates)

Purple

Cleopatra and Caesar (royal purple), Wizard, AVATAR USED PURPLE AND BLUE

Brown

Rural, Military brown, autumn

Gray

Rainy day, gray castle, medieval, armor, metal robot, age

Red

Royal Red, Cochineal, Only color in Spielberger’s Oscar winning film Schnidler’s list,

Red Carpet

Chinese Red Weddings

CLOWNS

Sex (Amsterdam’s red light district), SEXY Cars

Stop Sign, Danger

Strength Tests rise in red room

Red and culture

Greeks believed when redheads died, they became vampires

Roman and Medieval believed redheads = witch

The top 2 US Comedians were red head (Lucille ball and Carol Burnett)

Contemporary Strong Women = Red Head

Solid

Stability, Professional

Stripes

Clown, Prisoners

Plaid

Rural, Rube, Most Drama uses Urban vs Rural Conflict

• American West Cowboy Plaid

• Rural Camping

• Tablecloths

• Pajamas

Golf plaid = Golf courses & parks are rural areas in cities, Scottish Plaid = Family of Village