Rollins Band - Liar

Speaking of the color red on my previous post, I've got an interesting video clip to share with you.  This is the Rollins Band, lead by Henry Rollins (the singer), with a video call 'Liar'.  Martin showed us this video in class for the purpose of lighting, compositing and rendering lesson.

Rollins Band - Liar (YouTube)

In this video clip, which is directed by Anton Corbijn, the tint of the video is really orange.  It stays orange for most part of the video.  It gives us a cautious feeling about this video.  I feel that we can't relax by watching it.  We need to put on some sort of a guard to prepare ourselves when we watch this.  In the chorus part, Henry was painted bright red all over his body and he screams while singing the song, it's really captures our attention when we see him like that.  Even though in some parts he was blurred and his band in the background is the one in focus.  My eyes keep on jumping between the background (the band who is tinted in blue and the camera focuses on them) and Henry (who is painted in bright red but out of focus).  Well, in conclusion, the orange tint gives us a cautious feeling towards the video, while the red painted Henry really captures our attention.

Red Riding Hood

A few days ago, I watched a movie called The Red Riding Hood.  I was kind of hoping to see a more interesting storyline than the original version.  And to my amazement, the film is indeed have a lot of twist.  Some changes can be guessed, but the ending is shocking.

Anyway, when I was watching the movie, I didn't realize it that the color was so dull and gray.  It is snowing for most part of the movie.  The first few minutes of the movie was quite bright and cheerful, full of flowers and sunlight.  But when the plot started to developed, the color mood started to change into a more dull and less saturated one.

And then, Valerie (the main character) receives a hood from her grandma.  A really bright and saturated red colored hood.  You can't really help it but to focus on it whenever it is visible in the screen.  The appearance of this bright red hood also feels like the danger is about to begin or the plot is now going to get more interesting.

I think, it's quite clever to make all the other color less saturated than the red hood, so that we as the audience are really focusing on the red hood instead of the surroundings.  We know what the surroundings are, but making the color of the hood more saturated is just helpful for us.  Or at least that is what I think.

Puzzle Bobble

The other day, I was just looking for an app in the iTunes store, I accidentally stumbled my way to a game call 'Puzzle Bobble' (made by Taito).  Are you familiar with this game? It use to be on 'SEGA' console or Playstation 1 if I'm not mistaken (nowadays, you can find this game anywhere, in android or even in iPhone).  I remember, I play this game a lot with my little brother when I was areound 10 years old.

 

The objective of the game is simple, you have to break all of the marbles by shooting them with the same marble color.  The marbles will break when there are 3 or more marbles sitting together in the same color.  Being a kid at that time, I think I was drawned by the beautiful color the marbles have.  They are all shiny, highly saturated and bright colored marbles.  I really find it so appealing.  Perhaps that's why they make games, candies or any product for children with a lot of bright shiny color.