Movie Magic Project!!! COLORS ARE MORE THAN JUST COLORS

MOVIE MAGIC PROJECT!!! BY ELEITA KUTCHER BOUVIER

Colors are, more than just colors, colors can be expressions and feelings. Colors are beautiful. Through the years, colors had acquired meanings, for example in my country flag’s colors represent the two political parties of Panama, the Liberals (red) and the Conservatives (blue). The white symbolizes peace between them and the equal division of the colors states that they both govern the country at different times. The colors of the Panamanian flag also have alternative meanings. The blue represents the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea and red stands for the blood spilt for Panama's independence. The blue star represents the civic virtues of purity and honesty and the red star symbolizes the authority of the law. Together they represent loyalty and resilience. As well as, colors have meaning for my Panamanian’s flag; it also has meaning for other countries.

We watched four movie clips, one from a movie called Stranger than fiction, Kill Bill, Everything is Illuminated, Moulin Rouge. Where it was, a lot of colors, especially in Moulin Rouge and Everything is illuminated. Those two were, the clips that I chose to do my mosaics. And This time on our Cross Cultural Awareness class, our job was, choose two clips, from the four clips that we watched and then do mosaics. With different colors, we are going to represent what we saw, or represent our emotions that we got after watching the clips, with colors.

Doing my Mosaics

On my first mosaics, to represent “The Perfect Place” which is the name of the scene, in the movie “Everything is illuminated. I use sunflower yellow, to represent the plantation of sunflowers all around the dark brown path. Under the sunflower yellow circle forms, I use the color green to represent, the perfect grass in Ukraine. At the end of the dark brown path, I use cream color to represent the sticks that were buried in the ground. I use white to represent the shirts that were hanging on the sticks. To conclude my mosaic I use cream color, to represent the house in the middle, at the end of the path. Everything is really bright and perfect on the clip and on my mosaic.

On my second Choice, to represent “Moulin Rouge”, that is a movie full of love and desire. I use different tones of red and pink. But not only those pastel colors, I also use dark colors, to represent the crowd. Dark colors, because, on the scene, in the crowd, they were all men, in black suits. My perception about that clip was, that every single man in that theater wish to have the girls in the stage. It is all about the desires of those men.

EVALUATING MY PERCEPTIONS

I really enjoyed this Movie Magic project, I have learned that colors are not just colors; colors are feelings, expressions and thoughts. I consider that the director of the movie, use the colors perfectly, especially on my two choices. Love, represented with red and different tones of pink and even more, on my second clip, where the director, use the intensity of each color. Colors are beautiful. Colors are life.