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Research into Mixing Colour Temperatures

Mixing colour Temperatures

The use of different colour temperatures in film can have endless great effects on a shot. Each light source, regardless of source, contains colour, and depending on a camera’s effectiveness with white balance, that colour can be revealed. Those colours can be used as subtle emotional and narrative cues to drive a story.

The colour of light chosen, will have an emotional impact on the viewer. An audience will most often relate blue light as cooler and sad, while yellow/orange light tends to imply heat, vibrancy and even happiness. Mixing these colour temperatures can be a great way to manipulate these psychological effects and add complexity to a shot. While the subject’s skin tones should primarily stay a single colour, adding a contrast emotion can build a sense of dimension and emotion to a shot.

 The clash of both tungsten and a cooler blue is shown to work beautifully in James Cameron’s 2001 film Terminator 2. It represents the heat of the moment and the humanity that has grown within the T-800 Model 101 terminator, yet the blue shows the coldness of his bionomic parts.


However, the idea of colour and emotion can be disregarded. Director Jean Pierre Jeunet used light and colour extensively in Amelie, yet chose not to stick to the conventional methods of emotional cues.
 

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