Lion King

This week, I'm going to look at the color proportion in the Disney's Lion King.  I've watched this movie in DVD long time ago, when I was still in my childhood days.  I can't really remember what's the story about and the great songs in it.  But luckily for me, the movie was shown again in Odeon in these past few days.  Since I've been enrolling in cinematography class and colour class too, watching a movie nowadays is not the same as before.  I started to pay attention to the light, the cut, the edit, the colour, the composition.  It might be good for me to understand cinematography but it's a bit hard to get absorbed in the movies now.  Anyway, I've seen some scenes in Lion King that's worth talking about in here.

In the first few seconds or minutes of the opening of the movie, we're shown with a great scene of the sun rising.  At the moment, the environment is covered in red.  And as the sun rising, it burns brightly yellow  to the environment.   Because of the environment is covered in dark red, the focus of the eye suddenly goes to bright sun peeking in.  And as the sun rise higher and gets bigger in the screen, the color of the environment is changing to a brighter orange.  And thus we have a nice transition of color proportion.

In these scenes, they are both a bit dark and a bit dull.  But you can notice that the look and feel of the forest or savannah is natural.  In the first picture, the lone tree in it has a brighter green compare to the grass in the foreground and the background.  And there's also a hint of yellow on the ground.  Even though the yellow is bright, because the size of the color is not that big, it still fits to the colour proportion nicely.

On these next scenes; it's where Simba is trying to ran away from Zazu, they all started to sing in the middle of the jungle, and the colour of the jungle suddenly changes from a dull boring but natural colour into a bright highly saturated colour.  And it's a really bouncing colour.  For example, to put green with red together and then blue and yellow and many more.  It gives a dynamic, bright, happy and powerful feel to the atmosphere.