The next development was the introduction of the Two-Strip Technicolor. This is where in films the would only use the colours red and green. In the film The Mystery of the Wax Museum(1935), you can tell the main colours that were used were Red and Green, there wasn't loads of different colours used like now and days.
Then there was the first full strip technicolor was used in films such as Becky Sharp (1935). This film contained a lot more colours and more detail. Which made the detail of the film much more different compared to the amount of colours used in the The Mystery of the Wax Museum.
From the 1930s to the 1940s black and white colours represented the reality of a scene, but when there was colour it represented a fantasy and a spectacle. This was especially shown in the film the Wizard of Oz. At first she was in the real life world, where it was all black and white and grey and boring, but then after the tornado was over she opened the door and all you could see was colour. However the colour didn't look really realistic, it kind of looked like plastic in a way because it was all shiny and precise.
Also when it come to colour there is something called Denotation and there is something called Connotation.
- Denotation is the literal description of an idea, concept or object. So for example instead of seeing a chair, the chair would be described.
- Connotation is what we associate with a particular idea, concept or object. So for example you could see a chair somewhere and, you remember that, that same chair is also elsewhere so its the same as the chairs in school.
- Colour works on a subconscious mind, to create a mood. So for example if you were in a room and the colour in the room was Red, then you would think that maybe the room is warm or there is a sense of romance in the room.
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