Colour/mise en scene

Colour
The first use of colour was in films such as Voyage a Travers L'Impossible by the pioneer George Melies in 1904. Here the film was painted hand by hand.
By 1933, we had the first full length colour film, this was the use of the two-strip technicolor using only red and green. The first full three strip Technicolor was Becky Sharp.  From the 1930's to the 1940's black and white represented reality and colour represented fantasy and spectacle.

Denotation-The literal description of an idea, concept or object.
Connotation-When we associate with a particular idea, concept or object.

Colour works on the subconscious mind to create mood.

For example, when you see the colour red you think of things like anger, blood, violence, aggression but this all depends on which context you see the colour in, cos if red can also represent love, passion, valentines day, and romance. When driving you see the colour red for stop, and when its closer to december you see it as getting closer to christmas. Red can also be used to represent football teams, for example arsenal and man u.

When you see the colour blue, you think sad, emptiness and cold, this would be in a film context. Also, when you're using a tap you see blue as the cold water, this means colours are also used as signs. Furthermore people use blue to represent water and the sky, or sea.

Finally, when looking at the colour green, you think of sick, illness. in addition of the colour green, it can be used to represent plants and trees, or even vegetables, in conclusion, the colour green was used to represent a big beast called the hulk in marvel films.

Colours are used to represent a variety of different things from films, an example of this would be the opening scene from we need to talk about Kevin, in this film there is a lot of use of the colour red, this could only imply that something bad is going to happen, like its saying 'danger'
Tomatina 2010 Film "We Need To Talk About Kevin."

Mise en scene 
Mise en scene is in the scene or frame, there are mainly 5 important,
1. settings and props.
2. costume, hair and make up.
3. facial expressions and body language.
4. lighting and colour.
5. positioning of characters and objects in the frame.

Setting is when a media text takes place props are the objects we see in the setting.
Costume hair &