FilmFables is a collection of short reviews, essays, quizzes and more without limitations to certain genres or eras.
Special sections on Film Fables
Orange in Films – Film Colour Series
As you will see, there is a great wealth of posts, pages, images etc. about the colour orange in various films. This project (and actually this website) started with our Film Colour seminars, a Special Topics module given by Tina Kendall at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. During the classes, our discussions focused on how films use colours aid the visual storytelling, for example how shades or hues and their combinations can convey emotions, support a theme, or, how they may go against the grains subverting filmic traditions with novel ways of using colours. We also observed that movie characters or their mental states may be associated with certain colour sets (e.g. Red Desert, Antonioni, 1964), themes can be expressed through certain colours (e.g. red, green and honey in Amelie, Jeunet, 2001), etc. We worked in groups in a project based format, so some of the posts you can see in the Orange in Films section of the film blog is the work of multiple authors dedicated exclusively to our film colour topic, which we identified as the Use of Orange in Visual Storytelling. Our team of Orange in Films is an international lot of three students: Izzy Sieveking (UK), Elizabete Sipko (Latvia) and Anna Sebestyen (Hungary).