A wonderful way to watch, and learn from, movies.
Color Palette Cinema, as its name suggests, takes a still from a film, and breaks down its colours into a handful of swatches. While the premise may sound simple, the results can be illuminating, eye-opening, and inspiring – if not for filmmaking or film study, certainly for film appreciation.
Further Viewing
We’ve collected a bunch of video essays, breakdowns and supercuts exploring ways colour is used in visual storytelling:
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