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Have you ever wondered why certain colors or combinations of colors cause or evoke an emotional response, or simply create a nice picture?

Color can affect us psychologically and physically, and often we do not notice it. It can be a powerful tool within history. Cognition in color theory makes it possible to control color to enhance the effect and visual enhancement of the image.

In filming the using of color to create harmony or tension within the scene, or to draw attention to a key visual idea sometimes leads to amazing results.

Studying the work of the best filmmakers we admire so much, we must admit that there is nothing accidental. A saturated red color is used to enhance emotions, to raise blood pressure, while blue color has a calming effect. Some colors are clearly associated with some place or location, others - with time or an epoch.

Let's watch this nice video of CineFix to see the great examples of color use in films.



Do you agree that color is important? Does it influence you in an everyday life? Could you remember some examples of interesting and impressive color use? Or maybe you can tell us about your color preferences and how it changed during your life? 

Feel free to share your opinion, thanks:)

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Unknown said…
I never thought about it but I think that color is important in our life. Everyone has some of their favorite colors. Well-chosen colors improve your wellbeing for example at home. Personally I like warm colors at home.
14 May 2017 at 19:19
Magdalena Popek said…
In my opinion colors are important. They can influence your mood, your behaviour or even heal you - that's why we have color therapy (I have Bioptron device at home and for me it worked when I had problems with sinus).
About my color preferences - when I was 5-12 I loved green, 13-17 black/red, now I am not closed to one color, I like grey, red, black, green, blue etc...
14 May 2017 at 20:48
Maciej Główka said…
In my opinion color is very important, especially in movies. I really like movies like Drive or Interstellar, where colors, light and perspective plays very important role.
As a developer, colors influence me mostly on websites. I think it is good to create website with good colors that match themselves. Unfortunately, many developers forget about this.
14 May 2017 at 20:56
Unknown said…
I agree that colour is very important. Feng shui is a real thing.
I would also agree that the font is important as well. Especially small, unreadable, a little greyed out font that hurts your eyes which some people use to write an article. I'm a little blind and my resolution is too high too far away, yes.
14 May 2017 at 21:11
Unknown said…
I think that it is important - my byfriend is a graphic designer and he comments such aspects very often and when we were watching polish TV series "Belle epoque" he was complaing a lot about colors - that they don't fit in, that they are too bright, too "clean".
I loved all "Grand Budapet Hotel" movie and color definitely was an important aspect.
I watched "Witness of the prosecution" movie, it is black and white one, and I can't imagine how it would look like in color. I'm not sure if it should be colored - maybe color there are just right?
14 May 2017 at 21:40
KamilG said…
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14 May 2017 at 21:59
KamilG said…
I agree with author of this article that colors are important, for example I hate lurid colors. I suppose that many of us have similar feelings about it. I've heard someday that 90% of information people perceive visually. As Maciej pointed out, colors are playing main role in building websites, apps. So for me, as a programmer, it's very important to cooperate with a good graphic designer to build product attractive visually.
14 May 2017 at 22:06
Jakub Mańkowski said…
Colors are important for the mood we are in. I was staying in hotels a lot while working and I've noticed that sometimes dark rooms can get you very depressed in the morning. My favorite is white and maybe there is something in it because my favorite football team is Real Madrid :)
14 May 2017 at 22:25
Unknown said…
Color is importnant in website for example. Very good colors coax us to stay in this website and do some more thing. Well in every day i dont saw colors and i dont focus on that but i think without colors our life will be poor and sad. Well i have really bad graphics eye and i cant connect color in nice layout
14 May 2017 at 22:50
Unknown said…
I know that young people don't like brown color, it's somehow connected with being immature. When we become older, we could enjoy this color more
14 May 2017 at 23:03
Unknown said…
Feng shui is only one of the interpretations of color meaning. There are lots of interesting opinions about it
14 May 2017 at 23:06
Unknown said…
I understand your boyfriend, once you have learned about color theory, you couldn't forget it and you keep on analyzing it in every movie:)
14 May 2017 at 23:08
Unknown said…
I am not a Real team fan, but I love white color too, especially in loft interiors and white t-shirts are my favs)
14 May 2017 at 23:10
Unknown said…
I have read that it also depends of the type of the person. Someone perceive information visually, others aurally, someone tactile. And there are combinations. For me, visual and tactile is important. But when I hear the information without the visual example, I just can't get it at all:) maybe that's why for me color does matter
14 May 2017 at 23:16
Unknown said…
Oh yeah, great examples of colors in film, thank you
14 May 2017 at 23:17
Unknown said…
Maybe you don't see colors because they are comfortable for you? I don't see it until I meet some irritating neon colors, that are trying to damage your eyes)) few years ago it was trendy, but awful:)
14 May 2017 at 23:21
Unknown said…
I think we can't disagree that color is important not only in cinema but also in our every day life. Even things as simple as color of walls in our apartment can change everything dramatically. As for cinema, I remember there being a really bad trend of coloring everything blue for some time, same thing goes for video games, a lot of them look really brown and muddy just because other games do to. As for good examples of well used color in something I recently watched - Slow West had a pretty great balance of well thought out color.
15 May 2017 at 01:05
Anonymous said…
I work as a designer so color have a really big matter to me. It's not only about my work, but in everyday also. I'm always trying to chose the best color combination when it comes to clothes, interior design and even app themes or wallpapers.
Recently I've noticed that designers use some highlight colors combined with grey tones. Pink, yellow or blue looks awesome in this kind of combinations.
I'm also familiar with emotion-color pairs. And so blue means some innovative business, pink and orange something fresh and so on.
18 May 2017 at 21:31
Jagoda Bielawska said…
I never think about colors in that way, but after reading your article I must agree that colors are important in our life. In most cases we don't even realize it, this is something subconscious. Well-chosen colors can make a huge difference, for example in movies or art.
19 May 2017 at 09:28
Unknown said…
Colors balance our chi, triggers emotions and memories, connect us to nature, inspire us, and can even seem to slow down time. When you look at a sunrise or sunset especially over beautiful blue water it can make your heart sing or bring you to tears. The colors orange, red, blue and purple both separately and in natures unique majestic sequence twice a day inspires joy. Walking in the moonlight is another color experience where the world seems to slow down. Walk through a lush green forest forest and feel the effect of the color green. As you breathe its essence it fills your soul, increases your connection with love, truth ,hope, new life and the opening to wonder. Green is relaxing and balancing. Notice that hospital use shade of green for walls and scrubs to calm and center patients and staff. Blue calms stress. It brings the feeling of peace and connection. Look at all the blue pills marketed these days for sleep and anxiety. It is also a color used for self expression and associated with the throat chakra and speaking your truth.

Colors represent different meanings to different cultures and different individuals. Get in touch with the colors that resonate for you and decorate yourself and your environment with them to better your life. Choose clothing and accessories that make you feel safer, more vibrant and more powerful.
20 May 2017 at 22:00
Agnieszka Gronwald said…
Colors are important for us. Ifwe are surrounded by dark colors our attitude to life becomes bad, we are more depressed and so on. If we look at lots of green it makes us peacefull and relaxed (I'm not talking about the money here, but meybe it works the same :D ). Every color has some influence on us, I don't know how exactly does it work but it is amazing. It is good to have bright colors around you to feel better.
21 May 2017 at 13:08
Ihor Ahnianikov said…
Colors are important for sure, practically everywhere in our everyday lives, for example in the interior, cloth that we choose, nature around us. And of course it's really important in movies, there was a project compressing all movie frames into a single color stripe showing color consistency in movies - for example Matrix looked like a stripe with dark and green pixels.
21 May 2017 at 16:42
Łukasz Grzybowski said…
Yes, I agree that colors are important. Because of our favourite colors, we choose our clothes for example. In my opinion, colors also express our personality and mood.
21 May 2017 at 21:56
Michał Pycek said…
Yes, I agree that certain shades of colors have an impact on how we feel. Personally, I have noticed that in the working area the colors need to be calming, cool and not too bright in order for me to focus, while colors in my living room are a mix of warm colors. The surroundings which we see on the daily basis should be responding to kind of activities we tend to do there in order for us to fulfill our needs without discrations.
21 May 2017 at 22:12
Łukasz Stawiany said…
Using of color is really important not only in the movies but in our normal life, color brings some information we see red as to be caution of danger and other colors bring information too. From a movie side color is really important when we are trying to make a good shots, using of color is very important for directors and can give a really impressive effect.
21 May 2017 at 22:23
Bartosz Łyżwa said…
I can't agree with you more Olena, colors are very important but I think that everything what we call non-verbal communication affects more than common signals. Scientints say that more than 50% informations are expressed in non-verbal way, about 35% is variety and only 15% words. Sometimes I'm reflecting if there is possibility to express ourselves without speaking :)
22 May 2017 at 00:05
Krzysztof Lichota said…
In my opinion colors are very important. Film makers can influence our mood with them, people can express themselves with colors of their clothing etc. There is even a field of learning called "color psychology". My favourite color is red from a very long time. I don't think it ever changed.

23 May 2017 at 01:03
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