Zachary Willard Film/Blender

The Grand Budapest Hotel exercise has shown me that color schemes can change quite frequently throughout a film. These color changes can represent changes in the themes or introduce new symbols in your animation. What I have learned from this particular film is that you don't have to hold yourself to any one particular color scheme. In fact, you can go as far as to change the color scheme on a shot by shot basis. The hotel sequence is an astounding example of this by using the different color combinations to show diversity. This helps the viewer to understand that the hotels are in quite different and exotic locations across the world. The use of color in costuming is also just as essential as it's use in the production design. Through this lesson on color and its potential implementations I have had a complete change of perspective on the use of color in film. Adobe color is an extraordinary tool for deciding what color scheme to use. The way that I will use this tool in order...

The shots in the film utilize different elements of composition to create interest. The rule of thirds is consistently used throughout the film. There is a large amount of vertical and diagonal lines used in the stairway. Proportion is used on the stage to emphasize certain characters and their relevance to the story. The actors on the stage were visible and well lit with warm light to bring out the skin tones. Simplicity is also used in some of the shots on the stage to bring the focus to the actors and not the background. Something that I feel needs to be greatly improved upon is the use of different focal lengths. Throughout the film there is a lot of wide to mid shots but very rarely or never any use of close ups or extreme close ups. The use of costuming for the actors on stage is very bland and unimportant. The costuming doesn't necessarily take away from the film but it doesn't add anything either. Pacing in the film was also much slower than it should have been for the ...

One of the things that I did well was use shots that allowed for the story to be understood. The story was understandable and the cutting between shots did not disorient the audience. Also the key-framing wasn't choppy or distracting. I made sure that I included as many rules of composition as possible which added to the interest in the shot. The hardest thing of all was working with so many separate objects but it allowed me to create the atmosphere I was looking for. Some of the things that the class said I did well was the camera work. For instance the use of leading lines throughout many shots created a sense of depth. The repetition of the robots down the conveyor belt also was used to create visual interest. Emphasis was also used to differentiate the red robot from all of the other robots to identify a focus point and limit confusion. The bars on the doors were meant to make it seem as though the robots were trapped in the factory. The human in the room above them showed hi...