The precioso book by Charles Bramesco The Colors of Cinema (published by Pyramyd) contains detailed notes that are also concise in that there are several decades of films on one and another, analyzed as if they were full of colors.
Photo aficionados of Wes Anderson, Stanley Kubrick or Agnès Varda have all the details of the composition of the shots. Sin embargo, hay other element in the realization of a cinematographic image that rare vez se analyzed, but not for what is already of its essential: the palette of colors of a plane, and of a film in general… and, in fact, is fascinating, as our Charles Bramesco films in this book The Colors of Cinema: each film has its dominant color propios, which we say much depends on the intentions of the director. In this book of pages, profusely illustrated and easy to read, the author analyzed five films, from Singin' in the Rain a El viaje de Chihiro, by Jeanne Dielman a Black Panther, we learn how George Miller constructed his film M in torno has a contrast of colors acentuado digitalmente, the azul of an area in llamas and the yellow of the suelo of a desert, and luego, in contrast with the saturated colors of Miller, redescubrimos el universe hostile del Desierto Red de Antonioni, composed of tonos grisáceos and desaturados.
More happily, you will enjoy revisiting the lively and vibrant colors of Suspiria, by Dario Argento, all of which include one of the numbered cinematographs presented in the book which comes with color indications in solid colors and RGB codes. It is the perfect form for analyzing the colors of cinema, and for recording that, if there are a thousand white and black tones, there are many varieties of mismo colors… As if there are so many blue and green skies as directors and films.
The Colors of Cinema by Charles Bramesco
Pyramyd Editions
209 pages
Price: 29.95€
France – Paris
