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
StudioBinder expands on the colour swatches approach to studying cinematic images:
At one end, Lewis Criswell looks at ways colour is used across the work of different filmmakers:
… and at the other end: Jorge Luengo Ruiz‘s supercut of the use of one colour throughout the body of work of a single director, Pédro Almodóvar: