Week 9: What colour is pastiche?

A two tiered tutorial exercise today. It again redirected my thoughts back towards visualising the Distinctive Sound clip. I'd already decided to use a blend of 50s educational video conventions and urban stencilled elements. This exercise helped me to realise how to go about giving it the 50s look.

In considering the mood board for the 1950s I realised that it wasn't so much about colour rather than the lack thereof. The dated look usually came by black and white, or slightly yellowed tones. Also to portray the idea of inferior video, throwing in artificial scratches, patches and hairs works. There would be an interesting sort of vignette to each frame, and occassionally frames would jump, giving the impression of instability. To me sound played a big part in the creation of the 50s look, in ways like the loud, slightly fuzzy music and dialogue that always sounded like it was coming out of the mouth of the president.

I also picked up a fascinatingly interesting resource through the tutorial notes in relation to how colours communicate different things. It seems like the kind of document I could carry with me for many years, that kind of brought all of my knowledge of colour together in one document.