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 What Does the Color of Clothing mean in films?

What do colors movie characters wear mean?

What Different Colors mean

In this video I got a great understanding of how color of clothing works. In many movies characters are given a single color in which we can associate them with. Sometimes for the bad guy this color clashes with the color theme of the movie to stand out. Like if there were hues of yellow and brown throughout the movie and then this character just comes in with dark blue it could help shift our attention to this character and go WOW this person is giving evil villain vibe. Some times the color could indicate a change in the character from either bad to worse or no power to lots of power. Like maybe the person was at first wearing white which signifies "harmony" and "innocence" and as the film progresses they begin to wear darker colors allowing us to kind of see their decent into madness or becoming much more different then how they first were. And in the little to no power for example we have whiplash where in the beginning he was wearing white to show he was all the way at the bottom of the hierarchy but by the end of the movie he was wearing black just the the harsh instructor showing that he rose to the top of said hierarchy.

Still from Whiplash January 16,2014

            

Still from Whiplash January 16,2014

In a website called colorwithleo I got a deeper understanding of what each specific color means not just what the color helps us to understand. 

https://www.colorwithleo.com/what-does-color-symbolize-in-clothes-in-film/

Yellow

In films yellow is often linked with positivity. This is because after our brain sees this color it releases serotonin which makes the audience feel "happy" emotions. It could also be used for not so positive things like warning and deceit.

Black

Incoming danger or the introduction of someone evil.

Red

Red can symbolize a plethora of things such as aggression, anger, danger, revolution and sacrifice.

Green

In films green usually symbolizes renewal, jealousy, greed and poison.

White

White is used in many ways during films but we mostly see it being used to convey purity, innocence, cleanliness and sometimes emptiness.

What does this mean for our film?

I wanted to do this researcher because as the director it is my job to have an idea of what each character wears. For the script as I posted earlier I want the victim to be wearing white to represent that they had no reason to die/ they were innocent to the evils about to befall upon them. As we see the party goers leaving out I want for everyone to be wearing a yellowish and black tone of clothing to give a sense that something is wrong here. I want it to help move along the story to basically make the audience already know that something isn't right/ it's leading up to something. For the murderer however I will give them something green to hold maybe a candy packet or something (it's still on the drawing board) to early on symbolize that hey that person definitely did it but their faces won't be shown as they are leaving the party still appealing to the mysterious vibe of our film.

Takeaways

Color can mean many things to film. But it is mainly used to give an audience some type of introduction to the characters by the clothes that they are wearing. It can show the characters mental state and even help identify if they had any growth throughout the movie (even if it was bad).