Monday, October 18, 2010

ERIC ROLEX JOSEPH: MOSAIC

People use color for different kind of purposes. They try to express feeling by using different colors. It’s not easy to interpret if the use of color is successful, but we can feel it. Interpretation of colors is not a rational process but it’s an emotional one. During the last class, we watched some scenes in four movies during our last class. We had to take notes and we had to choose two movies in order to make our project. They were very good movies: Moulin Rouge and Kill bill were my favorite. So, I choose them in order to make my mosaic. It was not a very easy job but the result is successful.

In the movie Kill Bill, the filmmaker tries to create an environment where crime and vengeance constitute the background. We could see black colors almost everywhere and we can also see that the main character wear yellow. If we can try to interpret that I would say that the yellow represent backstabbing. The black color represents violence and crime. In order to be able to represent my mosaic, I choose to present a yellow body in the middle surrounded by many black points. These black points represent the other teammates who betray the girl in yellow.

For the second movie: Moulin Rouge, in this movie the filmmaker represents an atmosphere where love is: air that makes people breath. We can feel love everywhere and the filmmaker uses light pink, a blue like the one of the sky on the stage to spread out the feeling. We can also see that this is a first class representation because the public is a male public and all of them are in black suit. AS it’s about love and Romance I will try to draw a heart of a lady surrounded with human eyes. The colors that will be used are red, blue and pink. Red for passion, pink for love and blue for the blue light that appears in the stage during the presentation. I will try to do something very simple and I will try to express the felling that the main character, the lady with the necklace expressed in the presentation.

I realize that in both movies the filmmakers are really successful in expressing feeling and in the use of colors to share it. I realize also that color is a kind of language. I can use it to communicate emotions. It’s not easy at the first time to get what the filmmaker would like to share but when you take your time to better watch and to try to interpret what you see, you can feel the difference. When you understand what the purpose of the filmmaker is, we have to find how to represent it. Here is the big challenge. You have to imagine what will best describe the same thing. It’s not easy to figure it out.





2 comments:

  1. I thinl that my coumputer decides today not to work.i cannot see neither your pictures nor Elea's writing.
    A perfect writing composed with the four main parts.Each part dealing with the main.
    A very descriptive and precise writing than permit to the reader to fully imagine what the movies are like.Even if our choices for the films are not exactly the same, I can see the about the same felling concerning the whole project.French touch =).Great job
    Issabre Hamadoun

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  2. Hi, Eric:
    I like your conclusion. It's just like typical American speech which may come in an critical event in a movie. It's very inspirational and thoughtful

    However, if you had spaces between each paragraph and subtiltes, your blog would be really really great. Also, I don't get it why you paint half of the second paragraph in black. Does that suggest anything else? If not, what's the point?

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