In the short I'm working on, based on how I want it to work, parts of it will be shot in black and white and others will be shot in colour. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done that kinda stuff before or has examples. Because I don't have editing software to move kind of fading in and out of colour so it'll be like one scene colour, the next few in black and white and then back to colour etc.
cinematography Going from black and white to colour?
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LastSunsetFilms posted a short that does exactly that just the other day - Happy Halloween.
I'm sure you already know my answer, but I'll post
it anyway.
It doesn't matter what others have done. If this is
something you want to try, you should try it. Have
faith in your own ideas. The great thing about making
a movie is you can try something like this and if it
doesn't work you can try something else. All that happens
is you learn something.
it anyway.
It doesn't matter what others have done. If this is
something you want to try, you should try it. Have
faith in your own ideas. The great thing about making
a movie is you can try something like this and if it
doesn't work you can try something else. All that happens
is you learn something.
My last movie starts with a section in black and white and then moves to color. The black and white was to suggest the character's mind, which saw things as if they were old movies. The one I'm working on currently is all black and white with a few key props in color: a Cadillac's red headlights, a rose in a homeless woman's hair, the Polish flag on the back wall of a bar.
Schindler's List is black and white with one key background character's coat appearing in red.
The Wizard of Oz very famously starts out in black and white and then changes to color once the action moves somewhere over the rainbow.
Raging Bull is a black and white movie with a brief color montage of 8mm-style home movies, meant to quickly depict the character settling down into a life with a wife and child.
There are lots of reasons to use this technique. As directorik says, use it by all means! Just make sure as a filmmaker that you have a reason...don't just do it to be "arty" or whatnot.
Schindler's List is black and white with one key background character's coat appearing in red.
The Wizard of Oz very famously starts out in black and white and then changes to color once the action moves somewhere over the rainbow.
Raging Bull is a black and white movie with a brief color montage of 8mm-style home movies, meant to quickly depict the character settling down into a life with a wife and child.
There are lots of reasons to use this technique. As directorik says, use it by all means! Just make sure as a filmmaker that you have a reason...don't just do it to be "arty" or whatnot.