A Christmas Carol

A few months back, I bought a disney movie called A Christmas Carol.  I was looking for a good 3D movie and this is one of the 3D movies that I like to watch again.  Still talking in a saturation and color value subjects, this movie actually has a good examples about those subjects.

If you could remember, in the beginning of the movie, when Scrooge's partner has just passed away, the color in that particular scene and on forward is duller and more desaturated.  It's a pretty sad and grey in the beginning of the movie.  But then, the color is getting brighter when the ghost of the past shows Scrooge of his past when he met a beautiful girl; she became his lover for a while, in a dance festival.

And then, it's back again to a more gray atmosphere.  This keeps on going for a few times.  Whenever there is a happy memories, the color will get a bit brighter.  Another example is when the ghost of christmas present make his appearance.

He sits so high above a mountain of presents.  The room is also brightly lit and decorated.  It gives a richer and merrier christmas.  And then again, the color beginning to diminished near the end of the ghost of the christmas present departure.  It keeps on getting darker, and duller when the ghost of christmas future or death visits Scrooge.  But in the end, it all went a lot better for Scrooge and his clerk and his clerk's son.  Scrooge started to enjoy christmas like everybody else and he become like a second father to his clerk's son, tiny Tim.

Making the movie in this way; from a dull color into a brighter and more saturated color at the end of the movie, helps the audience to enjoy it better.  To me it feels like it enhances the mood or atmosphere better when they (the cinematographer) pay a lot of attention to the lighting and color, like in this film.