Nodding off-film analysis – Chloe Snowden's Animation Blog

For this class, The World of Animation, we have been split up into groups of 4 to analyse a short film. I was put into group 5 along with Ellen, Chris and Zoe. We have been given the short film nodding off by Kailey Choi.

After all the groups were assigned, our group made a ‘discord group’ chat to discus how we were going to go about analysing the short, after a bit of discussion we split out the analysing into 4 section.

The sections we decided to work on are colour/atmosphere, editing, sound and framing/camerawork. We each picked which topic we were going to make notes on.

These are the topics we picked.

I was assigned to analyise the use of colour and atmosphere in the film. I did some research on colour theory in film and wrote down some notes on the subject.

I made a PowerPoint for the group and enable it so everyone can edited on their own time.

My first slide I wrote about how colour theory is used in film to create an effective story.

In my next slide I used the information I did research on and applied it to the short film nodding off and their use of colour. The colours used are warm sunset colours. Oranges, ochres and taupes. These colours are used to reflect the time of day of the film – it is sunset and helps to convey the mood of the main character, the driver. He is tired when driving and clearly struggling to stay awake which lends into the shenanigans of the short.

The use of the colour yellow here could reflect the madness of the short film. The use of the colour red here could convey the incoming danger not just with the incoming car but the danger with the rest of the animation.

As they go into the tunnel the colours get darker, this implies more incoming danger.

The colours we can see here shows that this short takes place in golden hour, sunset. Again, reinforcing the notion of why the driver is so tired after a long day.

Good filmography uses the 60-30-10 rule in how they go about using colouring in film.

The 60-30-10 is a rule to help create a colour palette for a space. 60% of the scene should be a dominate colour, 30% is a secondary colour and the last 10% is an accent colour.

References-

Videos:

Color Theory and Wes Anderson’s Style — Sad Characters in a Colorful World

Color Theory in Film — Color Psychology for Directors: Ep5

Color In Storytelling | Aesthetic Film & Animation Montage [Over 50 films]

Joker Cinematographer Explains The Impact of Color in Film | Vanity Fair

LIGHTING CHARACTERS FOR ANIMATION

Understanding Color

Using Colour To Tell A Story In Film – at 6:40

Why are Films Shot in Two Colors?

Why Great Movies use the 60-30-

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