One of the most striking colours in Bong Joon-ho’s award winning film Parasite (2019) is orange. The film presents a world where extreme poverty and extreme wealth maintain a ruinous symbiotic relationship: where the poor transform into parasites to survive, and the rich act as heartless parasites, leeching off each …

Orange shades are associated with negative effects mostly, but not necessarily, when orange is related to chemicals. Anxiety, depression, insanity, in general, negative mental states can be associated with the characters surrounded by a context featuring toxic orange components. In visual storytelling orange shades emanating harmful, poisonous atmosphere may feature …

Orange may not be the most analysed film colour by researchers or critics, at least compared to the immense literature on red, black or blue, but it definitely belongs to the most featured colours of the cinematographic palette. Without trying to be too exhaustive, here are some of the suggested …

In order to describe the various hues of the colour orange used in visual storytelling (to set the tone and mood of a film even before any dialogues are said), there are several vocabularies that may come in handy when taking a dive into translating colours into human words. Still …

Orange shades are often associated with positive emotions, happiness, lightness, probably recalling often tactile experiences that feel pleasant, tasty, refreshing or pampering, like warm sun rays, healthy juicy fruits and vibrant spices, or tea lights in a romantic setting. In visual storytelling orange shades of such fruits, sun rays, flickering …